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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cornwall) : probably a topographic name for someone who lived at a place overgrown with nettles, Middle English net(t)el.
  • Respelling of North German Nettel, a nickname for an obnoxious person, from Middle Low German nettel ‘nettle’.

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