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.