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The keel Surname

keel Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Keele in Staffordshire, named from Old English c¯ ‘cows’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from East and West Keal in Lincolnshire, which are named from Old Norse kjolr ‘ridge’.
  2. Irish: reduced form of McKeel.
  3. Swiss German: probably a variant of Kehl 2.
  4. Americanized spelling of German Kühl (see Kuhl) or Kiehl, Kiel (see Kiel).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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keel Family Facts

Distribution of keel Families in the US in 1920
Number of keel families
 35-67
 12-34		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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