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Updated April 17, 2022

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Nye.
  • Irish : reduced form of O’Ney.
  • North German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Neu. The Jewish surname may sometimes be a shortened form of a name such as Neuburger.
  • German : habitational name from a place near Boppard.
  • North German : nickname from Middle Low German ni(g)e, ney(g)e ‘(the) new one’.
  • Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Aarnoud (see Arnold).
  • Dutch (de Ney) : variant of Nay 3.

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