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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Arabic : from a personal name based on Arabic nādir ‘extraordinary’, ‘rare’, ‘exceptional’.
  • German (also Näder) : occupational name for an embroiderer, later a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle High German næjen ‘to embroider or sew’.

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