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The nay Surname

nay Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and Irish: reduced form of McNay.
  2. English: variant of Nye.
  3. French: habitational name from places so called in Manche and Pyrénées Atlantiques, possibly named with Latin Nadium, from a Gaulish personal name, Nadius.
  4. Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a tailor or embroiderer, from a derivative of naaien ‘to sew’.
  5. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Yiddish equivalent of German Neu.

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Distribution of nay Families in the US in 1920
Number of nay families
 31-59
 11-30
 1-10
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