When Prof. Dr. Otto Nathan was born on 15 July 1893, in Bingen am Rhein, Mainz-Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, his father, Jacob Nathan, was 33 and his mother, Sara Freiberg, was 25. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1948 and lived in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States in 1935 and New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1950. He died on 27 January 1987, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 93.
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1891–1960 Male
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Jewish, Assyrian/Chaldean, English, French, and German: from the Biblical personal name Natan (Nathan in English, French, and German), meaning ‘given (by God)’ in Hebrew. In Europe, the personal name was comparatively rare among non-Jews in the Middle Ages (although always common among Jews); as a modern surname it is most frequently Jewish. Sometimes this is also a Jewish short form of the personal name Jonathan or Nathaniel .
Indian (mainly southern states): from a personal name derived from Sanskrit nātha ‘lord’. — Note: Since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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