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Scientist do not agree on this. Some scholars derive the name from the ancient Indo-European root "nebh" meaning 'wet', with the added "tu" having in Indo-European the meaning: 'domain/power base of'. So that would give the name the ancient meaning of 'he whose domain is the water'.
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