First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
German: habitational name from Naab in Bavaria or from the Naab river, a tributary of the Danube. The word is of pre-Germanic origin meaning ‘damp’, ‘moist’ and is related to German Nebel ‘fog’, ‘mist’.