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:
Possibly an altered form of German Nöthen, from an old personal name from Old High German nōt ‘distress’, ‘compulsion’, ‘force’, or a habitational name from a place so named near Aachen.