Eccles Family History
Eccles Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from places near
Manchester, in Berwickshire Dumfriesshire, and elsewhere, all named
from the British word that lies behind Welsh eglwys ‘church’
(from Latin ecclesia, Greek ekklesia ‘gathering’,
‘assembly’). Such places would have been the sites of notable
pre-Anglo-Saxon churches or Christian communities.
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Name Distribution of Eccles Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Eccles families
 24 - 46  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Eccles families
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1,519 - 3,035 507 - 1,518 |
1 - 506 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Eccles families
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40 - 77 14 - 39 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Eccles Family Origin
Eccles Immigration Information
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Eccles Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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