Neisler
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Frequency: (296)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: nickname for someone who was finicky with food, inept in his work, or tentative in speech, from Middle High German niusen ‘to probe’, ‘try out’.
2. Altered spelling of Kneisler, a nickname from Middle High German knūz ‘cheeky’, ‘irritable’.
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