Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational name for a tailor or embroiderer, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German nehen ‘to sew’, ‘to embroider’. Compare Nager 1.
- Johann Martin Neher (1713–97) and his family came to North America from Durwangen, Württemberg, Germany, arriving in Philadelphia aboard the Osgood on September 29, 1750.