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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German (Nüssle) : from a field name, Nüssle ‘hazel bush’.
  • Swiss German (Nüssle) : from the personal name Nissle, a pet form of Dionysius (see Dennis).

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