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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a medieval personal name, representing the Germanic clan name Nibelung ‘descendant of mist (or fog)’ (from a name cognate with German Nebel ‘mist’, ‘fog’). In Germanic mythology the Nibelungs were the doomed possessors of an immense hoard of treasure.

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