Popularity of the last name by country
Switzerland
All countries
- United States (186,976)
- United Kingdom (106,509)
- New Zealand (20,939)
- France (8,136)
- Australia (6,175)
- Canada (4,611)
- Unknown country (4,560)
- Ireland (3,193)
- Germany (2,520)
- Netherlands (1,341)
- Belgium (1,177)
- Italy (1,004)
- Spain (721)
- Switzerland (553)
- Colombia (327)
- Malta (287)
- India (275)
- Denmark (271)
- Norway (250)
- Austria (226)
- Poland (210)
- Mexico (200)
- Greece (176)
- Russian Federation (175)
- Sweden (169)
- Hungary (147)
- Turkey (142)
- China (141)
- Israel (118)
- Portugal (117)
- Lebanon (74)
- Indonesia (72)
- Argentina (70)
- Cuba (69)
- Czech republic (68)
- Peru (58)
- Egypt (57)
- Brazil (53)
- Philippines (52)
- Panama (47)
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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