Does anyone know where the last name "Case" is from originally?

Question

I'm trying to help out a freind that is adopted. He doesn't know much about his past, but he does know that his birth mother's last name is Case. He wants to know what country that comes from.

Answer 1

Northern Europe. I realize that isn' tmuch help. Go here:

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln=

I did the first level:

Case

English: from Anglo-Norman French cas(s)e ‘case’, ‘container’ (from Latin capsa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of boxes or chests.

Americanized spelling of French Caisse.

Americanized spelling of Kaas.

Americanized spelling of German Käse, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of cheese. Compare Kaeser.

And one second level:
Kaas
Dutch and North German: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of cheese, kaas.
Norwegian: variant of Kaasa, from the indefinite singular form.
Danish: habitational name from a common place name or a topographic name from kaas ‘landing place’, ‘quay’.
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(Many of the "form of xyz" citations have links to the name.)

Or, it could have been Polish or some other Slavic language and shortened.

Answer 2

England- occupational name for a maker of boxes or chests