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The kass Surname

kass Name Meaning and History

  1. Eastern German (also Käss): nickname from Czech kos ‘blackbird’, ‘shrewd person’ (see Kos).
  2. Eastern German: from the personal name Cazo.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): unexplained.
  4. Possibly an Americanized form of Czech Káš (see Kasa) or German Kase.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kass Families in the US in 1920
Number of kass families
 84-165
 29-83		 1-28
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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