Phelan Family History
Phelan Name Meaning
variant of Whelan.Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Fialáin ‘descendant of Fialán’, a personal
name representing a diminutive of Fial, meaning ‘generous’,
‘modest’, ‘honorable’. This is the surname of a bardic family in
northern Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Phelan Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Phelan families
 221 - 439  74 - 220 |
 1 - 73  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Phelan families
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99 - 195 34 - 98 |
1 - 33 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Phelan families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Phelan census records
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Phelan Family Origin
Phelan Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Phelan
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Phelan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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