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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a coachman or coachbuilder, from a derivative of the 16th-century Hungarian loanword kocsi ‘coach’, German Kutsche. The German -u- vowel comes from Slavic (Polish kucer).

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