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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : nickname for a peasant farmer, from kasza ‘cereal’, ‘porridge’. Compare Kasa.
  • Polish : from a short form of any of several personal names beginning Ka-, in particular Kasper and Kazimierz.
  • Hungarian : metonymic occupational name for a tool maker, from the Slavic loanword word kasza ‘sickle’ (from Slovak kosa).
  • Hungarian : habitational name from a place so named (sometimes spelled Kaza or Kasa) in Arad county, now in Romania.

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