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:
Polish, Jewish (from Poland), and Sorbian: topographic name from Polish nadół, Sorbian nadol ‘downwards’, denoting someone who lived lower down in a village on a slope, or on relatively low-lying ground.