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Name Newhouse
Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Other Forms FormsNeuhouse, Neuhuse, Newhus, Newus, Newis and Newiss
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Meaning & History
Either a habitational name for someone who lived at a "new house" (from Middle English niwe "new" and hus "new house") or a habitational name from any of various minor places so called especially perhaps Newhouses in Horton Yorkshire near the border with Lancashire. Americanized forms and cognate of Nyhus, Neuhaus, or Újházi.