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nissen Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Nisn, from Hebrew nisan, the Jewish month during which Passover takes place, originally given to boys born in that month. Compare Oder and Nissan.
  2. German and Danish: patronymic from the Scandinavian personal name Nis, variant of Nils (see Nicholas).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of nissen Families in the US in 1920
Number of nissen families
 65-127
 22-64		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Obit: Roy A. Nissen of Iowa (1916-2008) wilsonje19 0
Nissen in Denmark or Germany texray50 10
Katharina Metta Nissen ajuntas 0
JURGEN & WILHELMINA(WUNDER)NISSEN SCHILLER, ND Patricia 1
Brothers Jeff and Niels Nissen in California Connie Fairfield Ganz 1
looking for info on my Nissen family babsinirvine 7
Charles F. Nissen mlyen 0
Lt Col. Peter Nissen tony15022 0
Carsten Andreas Nissen BarbaraRainwater42 2
Nissen Cemetery Records in CA Fred Kemmerle 0
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