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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a nickname, either for a cheerful person, from Middle Low German nie, nige mōt ‘new spirit’; or, in the south, for a belligerent or aggressive person, from Middle High German nīt ‘hostile attitude’ + muot ‘attitude’, ‘sense’.

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