Nye Family History
Nye Name Meaning
English (southeastern): topographic name arising from a misdivision
of Middle English atten (e)ye which means either ‘at the river’
or ‘at the island’, from Old English ea ‘river’ and
eg ‘island’ respectively. Both these words were feminine in
Old English, and so should have been preceded only by Middle English
atter (see Rye), but distinctions of gender ceased to be
carefully maintained in the Middle English period.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Nye Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Nye families
 277 - 551  93 - 276 |
 1 - 92  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nye families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Nye Family Origin
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Nye Family Occupations
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