Neiss
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Frequency: (287)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: nickname for a distrustful, suspicious person, from Middle High German niusen ‘to probe’.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
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