Meaning of surnames JONGBLOED, VAN NISTELROOY
These two dutch surnames are konown around the world because of two dutch soccer player. Could anybody tell me the meaning of these two
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Jongbloed looks alot like "young blood" and I have to guess using a Dutch dictionary what the other "might" mean ...

"from the red corner or recess"
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The van Nistelrooy family is from the village of Nistelrode. This is the origin of the surname. My guess would be that Nistel means 'nestle', and 'rode' in toponyms means 'wood, small forrest' (see also http://www.dwb.uni-trier.de/index.html ).
Variants: Van Nesselrooij, Van Nestelrode, Nestelroij, Niestroij, Van Nisselroij, Van Nisselrooij, Nistelrode, Nistelrooij (and/or with y for ij).
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I'd think "corner" or "nestle" have some affinity ...
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They have, in the sense that Dutch 'nis' is related to both 'niche' (i.e. corner) and 'nestle'. More to the point, 'nistel' and 'nis' may be related, they definitely have distinct meanings.
You might have pointed out the weak spot in your theory yourself: What you translated is Nis + Rode. What happened to -tel- in the middle?
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