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neill Name Meaning and History

Irish and Scottish: reduced form of Irish Gaelic Ó Néill or Scottish Gaelic Mac Néill ‘descendant (or son) of Niall’, a personal name of Irish origin, thought to mean ‘champion’. The personal name was adopted by Norsemen in the form Njáll, and was brought to England both directly from Ireland by Scandinavian settlers and indirectly (via France) by the Normans. Among the latter it had taken the form Ni(h)el, which was altered by folk etymology to the Latin name Nigellus.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of neill Families in the US in 1920
Number of neill families
 78-153
 27-77		 1-26
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