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The ell Surname

ell Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a dealer in cloth or a tailor, from Middle High German, Middle Low German el(l)e ‘yardstick’, ‘length of the lower arm’.
  2. German: from a short form, Edilo, from any of various Germanic personal names composed with adal ‘noble family’.
  3. English: from the female personal name Ela, a reduced form of Elena and possibly also of Eleanor.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The ell name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the ell family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of ell Families in the US in 1920
Number of ell families
 22-41
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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