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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of cheese, kaas.
  • Norwegian : variant of Kaasa, from the indefinite singular form.
  • Danish : habitational name from a common place name or a topographic name from kaas ‘landing place’, ‘quay’.

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