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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements nod, not ‘need’ + rīc ‘power’, ‘rule’.
  • French : habitational name from Nourry in Nièvre, derived from a Gallo-Roman estate name, Nutriacum.
  • French : according to Debrabandere, from Old French norri ‘fed’, hence a nickname for a lodger.

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