Last name origin & meaning: Jewish, English, and German: from the Biblical Hebrew personal name
Natan ‘given’ (i.e. by God). Sometimes this is also a Jewish
short form of Jonathan or Nathaniel. The personal name
was comparatively rare among non-Jews in the Middle Ages (although
always common among Jews); as a modern surname it is most frequently
Jewish. This name appears in the following lists:
Biblical Names,
Heroes and Heroines,
Literary Characters
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