Althaus
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Frequency: (463)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German altes Haus ‘old house’, a habitational name for someone who lived in a building known as ‘the old house’ or from a place so named, for example in Hessen.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
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