Popularity of the last name by country

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Origine of last name

HOUSE : 1: English: topographic or occupational name for someone employed ‘at the house’ from Middle English hous(e) (Old English hūs) probably a religious house such as a convent. In the Middle Ages the majority of the population lived in cottages or huts rather than houses.2: English: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Howes">Howes</a>.3: English: perhaps a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English huse a southwest dialect form of Old English hyse ‘place overgrown with (water) plants’ a derivative of Old English hos ‘(water) plant’. In modern English the name might have been absorbed into <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Huss">Huss</a> or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Hose">Hose</a>.4: Americanized form (translation into English) of German <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Haus">Haus</a>.

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