Last name origins & meanings:
- German and Swiss German: from Middle High German neve
‘nephew’ (later rather broader in application, rather like
cousin in English), hence probably a distinguishing name for a
close relation or familiar of a prominent personage.
- Dutch: variant of Neve, cognate with 1.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from
German Neffe ‘nephew’.
- Reduced form of Irish McNeff
(see McNiff).
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