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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead named Nesset, in one case possibly from Old Norse neyti ‘herd of cattle’ + set ‘farm’, but most from the more common farm name Neset, meaning ‘the headland’ (from the definite singular form of Old Norse nes).

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