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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : presumably a topographic name from Middle High German nest ‘nest’, ‘hideout’, ‘home’, or possibly a nickname for a surly person, from a derivative of Middle High German nast ‘knot’ (see Nast).
  • German : habitational name for someone from Nest, a place near Köslin in eastern Germany.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of Nestor.

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