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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from Nimmer, Westphalia, derived from a prehistoric word nim, nam, with a probable meaning of ‘marsh’.
  • South German : from the personal name Nidmar, composed of Old High German nīt ‘hostility’ + mar ‘famous’.

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