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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : topographic name from Low German nie ‘new’ + land ‘land’, denoting newly reclaimed marshland, or a habitational name from places so named in Schleswig-Holstein and Westphalia.
  • Irish : variant of Nealon.

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