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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a net-maker, from an agent derivative of Middle English net ‘net’.
  • English : variant of Nettard, an occupational name for a cattle herd, from Middle English neat ‘cattle’ + hi(e)rde ‘herdsman’.
  • German : variant of Nader.
  • German : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Nette, for example in Lower Saxony and Westphalia.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.

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