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The newell Surname

newell Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Irish: variant of Neville.
  2. English: variant of Noel.
  3. Irish (north County Kildare): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tnúthghail ‘descendant of Tnúthgal’, a personal name composed of the elements tnúth ‘desire’, ‘envy’ + gal ‘valor’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of newell Families in the US in 1920
Number of newell families
 250-498
 84-249
 1-83
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