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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: from Middle English neghebour, a compound of Old English nēah ‘near’ + gebūr ‘dweller’. Compare Bauer. This may have been used as a nickname for someone who was a ‘good neighbor’, or more probably it derives from the common use of the word as a term of address.
  2. Translation of German Nachbar.