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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a baker who was new in a village or town, from neu ‘new’ + becker ‘baker’.
  • German : in northern Germany it may sometimes be a habitational name for someone from a place called Niebe(c)k, meaning ‘new stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a stream so named.

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