The niles Surname

niles Name Meaning and History

English: perhaps a patronymic from the medieval personal name Nel or Neal (see Nelson).
Possibly a variant of German Neils, a derivative of the personal name Cornelius.

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

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niles Family Facts

Distribution of niles Families in the US in 1920

Number of niles families

167-331

56-166

1-55

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thread	Author	Replies
Benedict Niles in Vermont	evelynmurray39	0
Old Photo of Nonie Niles Carr - Pennsylvania	RandallMcDaniel44	1
Page M. Niles, age 90	KENNELLYMARKA	0
Russell F. Niles - Obit 1993	fgruber24	0
Lina Niles Griffith	BecciThomas	0
New Hampshire	Niles	1
Robert Edward Niles	KathleenNiles1	0
Niles in Fulton or Montgomery 1810 1820	trischhall	1
Eunice Rosatha NILES born 1838 New York	PaulWalworth42	1
Requesting Grave Photos of the Cochrans buried in The Old Silverbrook Cemetery	amidd67	0

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