Frequency: (163)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: variant of Näther, an occupational name for a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle High German næjen ‘to embroider’, ‘to sew’. Compare Nader.
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