Last name: NEILL
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Last name frequency
NEILL : This last name is indexed 315,887 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NEILL : Irish and Scottish: variant of Neil also probably representing shortened forms of the derived patronymics McNeill or the comparable Irish O'Neill.
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