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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a regional (Hessian) variant of the habitational name Kues, from a place on the Mosel river, probably so named from Late Latin covis ‘field barn’, ‘rack’ and earlier recorded as Couese, Cobesa.

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