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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German : nickname from Middle High German kiusche ‘pure’, ‘chaste’; given the word’s more extensive meaning in the Middle Ages, ‘gentle’, ‘moderate’, ‘good tempered’, a religious purity may well have been implied.

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