Frequency: (133)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: habitational name from any of several places so named in Mecklenburg.
2. Possibly an altered form of French Tassin, from a reduced pet form of the personal name Eustasse, vernacular form of the saint's name Eustachius.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
