Frequency: (232)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: 1. variant of Nauer with the addition of an excrescent -t, which is common in west-central German dialects. 2. in the north, perhaps a nickname from a reduced form of Middle Low German nouwe-rāt ‘good advice’.
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