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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Swiss, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle High German næjen ‘to embroider’, ‘to sew’, or Yiddish neyen, ‘to sew’.

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