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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English not(e), nut ‘nut’; either a metonymic occupational name for a gatherer and seller of nuts, or a nickname for a man supposedly resembling a nut (for example in having a rounded head and brown complexion).
  • Irish : reduced form of McNutt 1.
  • North German : nickname for an industrious person, from Middle High German nutte ‘useful’, ‘efficient’.

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