American Family Name Origins:
Niebuhr
Frequency: (516)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
North German and Danish equivalent of Neubauer, or, as Søndergaard proposes, from a dialect form of German Nachbar ‘neighbour’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 8%. Guenter (2), Hermann (2), Kurt (2), Frieda, Gerhard, Hans, Hertha, Horst, Otto, Ralf, Reinhold.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
