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fuss Name Meaning and History

German: from Middle High German fus ‘foot’, hence most probably a nickname for someone with some peculiarity or deformity of the foot, but perhaps also a topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fuss Families in the US in 1920
Number of fuss families
 30-57
 11-29
 1-10
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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