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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German : of Old Prussian origin; unexplained.
  • Eastern German : from Czech-Sorbian hus ‘goose’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a goose farmer.
  • Eastern German : possibly also a habitational name for someone from Gaussig near Bautzen.

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