English: habitational name from a place named with Old English
neoðera ‘lower’ + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’. This could be the one in Worcestershire or the one in
Northamptonshire, but is more likely to be from one of the eight
places so called in Devon, where the surname is most common.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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