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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from any of several places called Husten in Westphalia.
  • German : a nickname for someone with a cough, from husten ‘to cough’.
  • German : an occupational name for harvester of grass or grain, from Middle High German hūsten ‘to set up sheaves of hay or grain’.

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