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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English neghebour, a compound of Old English nēah ‘near’ + gebūr ‘dweller’. Compare Bauer. This may have been used as a nickname for someone who was a ‘good neighbor’, or more probably it derives from the common use of the word as a term of address.
  • Translation of German Nachbar.

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