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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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Distribution of ell Families in the US in 1920
Number of ell families
 22-41
 8-21
 1-7
 0
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