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naber Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: nickname from Low German Naber ‘neighbor’. Compare Neighbor.
  2. Southwestern German: from a personal name given in honor of St. Nabor; or a habitational name from a place in Alsace. In Württemberg there is a place name Nabern, derived from the river name Naber, which might have contributed to the surname.
  3. German: occupational name for a maker of wheel hubs, Middle High German nabeger, from nabe ‘hub’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of naber Families in the US in 1920
Number of naber families
 17-31
 6-16		 1-5
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Elisabetha Naber, Maria Anna Naber, late 1880's rosecolorsunset 0
Katherine Naber pbrockman21 0
naber family waterford wisconsin chris 0
Muscatine IA Naber Family mdrgr 3
Nebraska Naber alannahnaber 0
Iowa Nabers timnaber 5
just begining my search steve 3
Female NABER adopted in Iowa mdrgr 1
Helen Naber cherilee2 0
Naber - Ohio, Kentucky rabencoin1 9
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