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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Nöth) : nickname from Middle High German nōt ‘distress’, ‘need’, ‘travail’, or from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with a cognate of this word, as for example Notger, Gernot.

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