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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a kind, benevolent person, from Old High German (gi-)nādig ‘kind’.
  • Indian (Karnataka) : Hindu name meaning ‘village superintendent’, derived from an official title based on Kannada nạ̄du ‘district’ + the agentive suffix -iga.

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