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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire and Yorkshire) : occupational name for a keeper of oxen, from an agent derivative of Middle English nowt ‘beast’, ‘ox’ (from Old Norse naut, a cognate of Old English nēat; compare Neat).
  • English (Lancashire and Yorkshire) : occupational name for a scribe or clerk, from Middle English notere (Old English nōtere, from Latin notarius, an agent derivative of nota ‘mark’, ‘sign’).

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