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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : apparently a habitational name from a place called Niedringhausen, near Lübbeke, Westphalia; the place name, however, may be derived from the family name, which may have arisen as a topographic name, from Middle Low German neddering(e) ‘depression’, ‘low lying (marsh) land’ + hūsen ‘(at the) houses’.

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