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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from Naab in Bavaria or from the Naab river, a tributary of the Danube. The word is of pre-Germanic origin meaning ‘damp’, ‘moist’ and is related to German Nebel ‘fog’, ‘mist’.

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