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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a Slavic pet form of the personal name Nikolaus (see Nicholas), or from a Germanic personal name formed with nīt ‘hostility’.
  • German : nickname for an obnoxious person, from Middle High German nīt ‘hostility’.

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