Origin and popularity of the name STRAUSS

Origin

Strauss : 1: German: nickname for an awkward or belligerent person from Middle High German strūz ‘quarrel complaint’.2: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German strūze German Strauss ‘ostrich’ hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of an ostrich or (among the German nobility) a nickname for someone whose coat-of-arms featured an ostrich or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird. In some cases the Jewish surname was artificial. This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above and 3 below) is also found in some other European countries e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine) the Netherlands Poland and Czechia.3: German: topographic name from Middle High German strūz ‘bush bundle’.4: Americanized (or Germanized) form of Slovenian Štraus or Štravs (see Straus 2) Czech and Slovak Štraus and perhaps also of Polish Slovenian etc. Straus 1 all ultimately of the same German origin as the names above.

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Last name frequency

Geographic distribution of the 41,264 individuals with the name STRAUSS on Geneanet.

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