Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name from any of various places called Neetze or Netze, from the Netze river, or from certain other localities such as Netzkamp in northern Germany.
- German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of nets, from Middle High German netz ‘net’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Netz or Yiddish nets ‘net’.