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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: status name denoting a serf, Middle English, Old French vass(e), from Late Latin vassus, of Celtic origin. Compare Welsh gwas ‘boy’, Gaelic foss ‘servant’.
  2. English: variant of Vause.
  3. Swedish: variant of Wass.
  4. South German: variant of Fass.
  5. Hungarian: from vas ‘iron’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith, or a nickname for a resilient, tough man.
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