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Question:It's an altered spelling of German surname K?se.

Last name origins & meanings:

German (K?se): metonymic occupational name for a cheese maker or cheese merchant, from Middle High German k?se ‘cheese’.
German: topographic name from Rhineland dialect Kaz ‘thicket of young oak trees’.
German: from an unexplained medieval personal name, kazo.
Slovenian (Ka?e): nickname for a very small man, from the dialect word ke?e ‘dwarf’.
Japanese: written with characters meaning ‘add’ and ‘strait’. This name is found mostly in the Tōkyō area.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It's an altered spelling of German surname K?se.

Last name origins & meanings:

German (K?se): metonymic occupational name for a cheese maker or cheese merchant, from Middle High German k?se ‘cheese’.
German: topographic name from Rhineland dialect Kaz ‘thicket of young oak trees’.
German: from an unexplained medieval personal name, kazo.
Slovenian (Ka?e): nickname for a very small man, from the dialect word ke?e ‘dwarf’.
Japanese: written with characters meaning ‘add’ and ‘strait’. This name is found mostly in the Tōkyō area.

Kazia is Welsh. Could be a derivitave. My friend says the original name came way back from Germany.

Looking at previous answer, it seems your answer may lie there.