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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from an inflected form of German hübsch ‘handsome’, ‘nice’. The first syllable has been influenced in sound by the Yiddish word hipsh ‘considerable’, ‘sizeable’.

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