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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place named with Old English neoðera ‘lower’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. This could be the one in Worcestershire or the one in Northamptonshire, but is more likely to be from one of the eight places so called in Devon, where the surname is most common.

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