Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish: from casa ‘house’
(Latin casa ‘hut’, ‘cottage’, ‘cabin’), perhaps originally denoting the occupier of the most distinguished house in a
village.Italian: from a short form of the personal name
Benincasa, an omen name meaning ‘welcome in (our)
house’.Italian (Sicily; Casà): probably a metonymic
occupational name for a maker of saddlecloths, from Greek kasas
‘saddlecloth’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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