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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German : probably from Middle High German nōz ‘domestic animals’, ‘cattle’, hence a byname for a dealer in livestock. Compare Noetzel.
  • German and Swiss German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with nōt ‘distress’, ‘force’.

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