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keeling Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: see Keeley.
  2. English: nickname from Middle English keling ‘young codfish’.
  3. Americanized spelling of German Kühling, a patronymic from Colo, probably a short form of an old personal name meaning ‘helmet’.

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

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Distribution of keeling Families in the US in 1920
Number of keeling families
 42-82
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 221 - Messages: 679
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Keeling, Adam; St. Francois, MO. Kathy Schroer 1
Leonard Keeling vickie neugebauer 20
Keeling Kelly M. Ellis 1
Moses Keeling Ron Keeling 7
Marvin Ray Keeling, Sr. Retha Keeling Thompson 1
Free Keeling Family Genealogy Website Cathy Keeling Ecton 8
Lucy Keeling stevenhodder 7
Edmund Keeling/Nancy Francis DeniseBates72 3
George Washington Keeling and Cyntha Guest Keeling texasbound 3
Samuel and Joseph Keeling Sheffield England jkeeling121 0
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