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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : possibly, as Brechenmacher suggests, an occupational nickname for a night watchman, from Middle High German naht ‘night’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Nacht ‘night’.

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