Neill Family History
Neill Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: reduced form of Irish Gaelic Ó
Néill or Scottish Gaelic Mac Néill ‘descendant (or
son) of Niall’, a personal name of Irish origin, thought to
mean ‘champion’. The personal name was adopted by Norsemen in the form
Njáll, and was brought to England both directly from Ireland
by Scandinavian settlers and indirectly (via France) by the Normans.
Among the latter it had taken the form Ni(h)el, which was
altered by folk etymology to the Latin name Nigellus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Neill Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Neill families
 78 - 153  27 - 77 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Neill families
|
270 - 537 91 - 269 |
1 - 90 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Neill families
|
142 - 281 48 - 141 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Neill Family Origin
Neill Immigration Information
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Neill Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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