Kase Family History

German (Käse): metonymic occupational name for a cheese maker or cheese merchant, from Middle High German kæse ‘cheese’. German: topographic name from Rhineland dialect Kas ‘thicket of young oak trees’. German: from an unexplained medieval personal name, Cazo. Slovenian (Kaše): nickname for a very small man, from the dialect word keše ‘dwarf’. Japanese: written with characters meaning ‘add’ and ‘strait’. This name is found mostly in the Tokyo area.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press