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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : contracted form of Nadler or Nagler.
  • German : topographic name for someone living on top of a hill or on a pass, from Middle High German nel(le) ‘point’, ‘vertex’.
  • German : Altered spelling of German Kneller.

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