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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of either of the personal names Jacob and Nicholas (see Kusch).
  • German : variant of Kusch 2.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name kushl, a pet form of the Biblical name Yekuthiel.

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