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eccles Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: habitational name from places near Manchester, in Berwickshire Dumfriesshire, and elsewhere, all named from the British word that lies behind Welsh eglwys ‘church’ (from Latin ecclesia, Greek ekklesia ‘gathering’, ‘assembly’). Such places would have been the sites of notable pre-Anglo-Saxon churches or Christian communities.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of eccles Families in the US in 1920
Number of eccles families
 24-46
 9-23		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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