First name origin & meaning: English: Curve in the road First name variations: Nasbit, Naisbitt, Nisbet, Nisbett, Nesbit Last name origin & meaning: Scottish (Borders), northern English, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places in the Border region of
Scotland called Nesbit(t) or Nisbit, named in northern Middle English
with nese ‘nose’ + bit ‘mouthful’, ‘piece of ground’
(Old English bita) or bit ‘bend’ (Old English
byht, modern bight). The place names refer either to a
piece of raised land sticking up like a nose, or to a bend in a river
shaped like a nose.
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