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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Neu.
  • French : metonymic occupational name for a boatman, from Occitan nau ‘ship’, ‘boat’ (Latin navis).
  • French : from a reduced form of a personal name such as Arnaud (see Arnold) or Renaud (see Reynold).

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