Family name origins & meanings
- Polish : nickname for a peasant farmer, from kasza ‘cereal’, ‘porridge’. Compare Kasa.
- Polish : from a short form of any of several personal names beginning Ka-, in particular Kasper and Kazimierz.
- Hungarian : metonymic occupational name for a tool maker, from the Slavic loanword word kasza ‘sickle’ (from Slovak kosa).
- Hungarian : habitational name from a place so named (sometimes spelled Kaza or Kasa) in Arad county, now in Romania.
