About the Neuhauser Surname

A Neuhauser ancestor may well appear as Neuhaus in earlier records. In origin, the name means “Someone living in a new house or from Neuhaus”. The ending -er in Neuhauser is a typical German derivative of the root behind Neuhaus. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Neuhauser surname had 729 bearers. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. From 1891 to 2000, 250 births in France were registered under Neuhauser.

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