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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : nickname for someone with a large nose, from Albanian hundë ‘nose’.
  • Americanized spelling of Hungarian Csontos, from csontos ‘strong’, ‘heavily built’, from csont ‘bone’, hence a nickname for a tough man.

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