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Knaus Name Meaning
from Middle High German knuz ‘proud’,
‘arrogant’, ‘daring’, hence a nickname for a haughty person.in
Württemberg knaus (and in Switzerland knus) also
meant ‘gnarl’, hence a nickname for a short, fat, gnarled
person.topographic name for someone living on a hillock, from
knaus ‘hillock’ in the Swabian and Alemannic dialects of
German.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Knaus Families
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United States
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Number of Knaus families
 16 - 30  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Knaus families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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