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 and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a maker of needles, or in some cases for a tailor, from Middle High German nādel(e), German Nadel ‘needle’.
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