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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German nuz ‘nut’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a gatherer and seller of nuts, or a (sometimes derogatory) nickname for a man thought to resemble a nut in some way (for example in having a round head and a brown complexion).
  • (Nüss) : variant of Nies.

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