Nail Family History
Nail Name Meaning
English: from Middle English naile, nayle ‘nail’
(from Old English nægel), applied as a metonymic
occupational name for a maker of nails, or as a nickname for a tall
thin person.Americanized form of German Nagel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Nail
Name Distribution of Nail Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Nail families
 36 - 69  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Nail families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nail families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Nail census records
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Nail Family Origin
Nail Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Nail
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Nail Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Nail census records
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Nail Civil War Service Records
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