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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of Irish Cusack, in the British Isles now found predominantly in Scotland.
  • Respelling of Czech Kusik, a nickname for a short person or someone with a physical defect, from kusý ‘fragmentary’, ‘unfinished’, ‘truncated’.

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