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The nell Surname

nell Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch and German: from the personal name Nel, a reduced form of Cornelius.
  2. South German: nickname from Middle High German nelle ‘crown of the head’, perhaps denoting an obstinate person.
  3. English: from the Middle English personal name Nel(le), a variant of Neill.

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

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Distribution of nell Families in the US in 1920
Number of nell families
 47-91
 16-46		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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