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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch (Frisian) : patronymic from a Frisian personal name, in origin probably a nursery term, but in the Middle Ages also taken as a short form of various Germanic compound names containing the element nand ‘daring’, ‘brave’ (see, for example, Ferdinand). Compare Nann.

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