Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Arnold.
  • German : in some cases a metonymic occupational name for a needlemaker, from Middle High German nālde ‘needle’ (variant of nādel). Compare Nadler.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named in Schleswig-Holstein.

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