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.