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NEIL : This last name is indexed 234,133 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NEIL : 1: Scottish English (Lancashire) and Irish (Munster): from the Gaelic personal name Niall (genitive Néill) possibly derived from Irish néal ‘cloud’. In most cases the name probably represents a shortened form of the derived patronymics McNeill or the comparable Irish O'Neill.2: English: variant of Neal.
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