Last name: NEW
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NEW : This last name is indexed 271,311 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NEW : 1: English: nickname for a newcomer to an area (though someone new to a position or occupation is also possible) from Middle English newe ‘new’ (Old English nīwe).2: English: topographic name for someone who lived by a yew tree from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atten ewe ‘at the yew’ (Old English æt thæm ēowe).3: Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Neu.4: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 牛 (see Niu 1) and 梁 (see Liang 1).
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