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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name from Middle English newe ‘new’ + hall ‘hall’, denoting someone who lived by or worked in a newly built hall or manor house, or possibly a habitational name from any of various minor places so named (from Old English nīwe + hall), for example in Cheshire and Derbyshire.

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