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I sounds like an Iberian surname, spelled variously Nunis, Nunes, Nunez or Núñez, there is also a surname Newnes from a hamlet in Shropshire, but the Iberian is long established in the US, with migrants from the Canaries and Portugal settling in Georgia and Louisiana in the 18th century.
Nunes is a patronymic based on the given name Nuno, whose meaning is obscured by too many possibilities. While strictly a family name, it often comes in the middle, preceding another surname, and may have been misinterpreted as a given name.

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