Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish and Irish : reduced form of McNay.
- English : variant of Nye.
- French : habitational name from places so called in Manche and Pyrénées Atlantiques, possibly named with Latin Nadium, from a Gaulish personal name, Nadius.
- Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a tailor or embroiderer, from a derivative of naaien ‘to sew’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Yiddish equivalent of German Neu.