English and Irish (of Norman origin), and northern French:
habitational name from any of several places in northern France, such
as Nogent-sur-Oise, named with Latin Novientum, apparently an
altered form of a Gaulish name meaning ‘new settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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