North German: status name for a householder or for someone who
lived or worked at a house, Middle Low German hus ‘house’
(see House).Czech and Slovak (Hus), German, and Jewish
(Ashkenazic): from Czech husa ‘goose’ (see Husa).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.Swedish: most
probably from German.Jewish (Ashkenazic): unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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