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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Diess, from a short form of the Biblical name Matthias (see Matthew).
  • German : from the Germanic personal name Teuzo, from theud ‘people’, ‘race’ (Old High German diot).

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