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The huss Surname

huss Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: status name for a householder or for someone who lived or worked at a house, Middle Low German hus ‘house’ (see House).
  2. Czech and Slovak (Hus), German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Czech husa ‘goose’ (see Husa).
  3. German: from the Germanic personal name Huzo, a short form of any of the various compound names formed with hugi ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ as the first element.
  4. Swedish: most probably from German.
  5. Jewish (Ashkenazic): unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of huss Families in the US in 1920
Number of huss families
 48-94
 17-47
 1-16
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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