Family name origins & meanings
- French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements nod, not ‘need’ + rīc ‘power’, ‘rule’.
- French : habitational name from Nourry in Nièvre, derived from a Gallo-Roman estate name, Nutriacum.
- French : according to Debrabandere, from Old French norri ‘fed’, hence a nickname for a lodger.