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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably a respelling of German Niederegger, from Nieder + Ecker, a topographic name for someone who lived at the ‘lower corner’.
  • Dutch : altered form of Nieuwegger ‘new harrower’, with epenthetic -d-.

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