The nay Surname
nay Name Meaning and History
- Scottish and Irish: reduced form of McNay.
- English: variant of Nye.
- French: habitational name from places so called in Manche and Pyrénées Atlantiques, possibly named with Latin Nadium, from a Gaulish personal name, Nadius.
- Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a tailor or embroiderer, from a derivative of naaien ‘to sew’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): Yiddish equivalent of German Neu.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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