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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : patronymic from the personal name Nijs, a reduced form of Denijs (see Dennis).
  • German (frequent in the Rhineland) : metronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Agnes.
  • German : variant of Nies.

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