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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian, especially Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads or places named with ny ‘new’ + land ‘land’, ‘farm’.
  • Americanized form of a common Dutch habitational name (Nieland, Nilant, Nijland(e)), denoting newly reclaimed land.

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