Family name origins & meanings
- German (also Knäuer) : (Silesian) nickname for a gnarled person, from Middle High German knūr(e) ‘knot’, ‘gnarl’.
- German (also Knäuer) : habitational name for someone from either of two places in Thuringia called Knau.
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