Reilly Family History
Reilly Name Meaning
Irish: reduced form of O’Reilly, an Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó Raghailligh ‘descendant of Raghailleach’,
Old Irish Roghallach, of unexplained origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Reilly Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Reilly families
 1,238 - 2,473  413 - 1,237 |
 1 - 412  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Reilly families
|
260 - 517 87 - 259 |
1 - 86 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Reilly families
|
463 - 924 155 - 462 |
1 - 154 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Reilly census records
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Reilly Family Origin
Reilly Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Reilly
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Reilly Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Reilly census records
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Reilly Civil War Service Records
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