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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the Germanic personal name Nan(d)hart, composed with nand ‘daring’ + hard ‘hard’, ‘strong’.
  • German : nickname for a greedy or grasping person, from Middle High German nemen ‘to take’ + hard ‘hard’.

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