Neubauer Name Meaning. German: epithet for a settler who was new to an area from Middle High German niu (we) ‘new’ + (ge)būr (e) ‘settler resident peasant’ (see Bauer ). Compare Newbauer . Jewish: either an adoption of the German surname (Jews were not usually agricultural workers at the time when surnames were acquired) or an artificial creation of a name from the German vocabulary word without any relationship to the actual occupation of the first Jewish bearer.

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