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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived at the lower end of a settlement, from Middle High German nider, German nieder ‘lower’, or a habitational name from any of many places called Nied (in Hesse), Niede, or Nidda.

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