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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a female name Tezia, Teucia, Tietsa, pet forms of Continental Germanic compound names formed with the unattested element þēudo ‘people’, ‘race’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Theiss or possibly Theus.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of Dutch Tijs, from a short form of Matthijs, Dutch form of Matthew.

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