Family name origins & meanings
- English : from Middle English not(e), nut ‘nut’; either a metonymic occupational name for a gatherer and seller of nuts, or a nickname for a man supposedly resembling a nut (for example in having a rounded head and brown complexion).
- Irish : reduced form of McNutt 1.
- North German : nickname for an industrious person, from Middle High German nutte ‘useful’, ‘efficient’.