Family name origins & meanings
- English (mainly East Anglia) : nickname for a pious and demure man, or an occupational name for someone who worked at a convent, from Middle English nunn ‘nun’ (Old English nunne, from Latin nonna, originally a respectful term of address for an elderly woman. The Latin word probably originated as a nursery term).
- German : from an Old High German personal name Nunno, said to be a nursery word.