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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German : unexplained; possibly a habitational name for someone from either of two places in North Rhine-Westphalia: Neesen or Niesen.
  • Swiss German : metronymic from the personal name Agnes (see Neese 2).

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