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parnell Name Meaning and History

English (mainly Devon): from the medieval female personal name Peronel, Pernel, Parnell, a vernacular form of Latin Petronilla. This is a diminutive of Petronia, feminine of Petronius, a Roman family name of uncertain etymology. It was borne by an early Roman martyr about whom little is known.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of parnell Families in the US in 1920
Number of parnell families
 80-158
 27-79		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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