Cullen Family History
Cullen Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coileáin
‘descendant of Coileán’, a byname meaning ‘puppy’ or ‘young
dog’.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuilinn
‘descendant of Cuileann’, a byname meaning ‘holly’.Scottish: habitational name from Cullen in Banff, so named from
Gaelic cùilen, a diminutive of còil,
cùil ‘nook’, ‘recess’.English: habitational name from
the Rhineland city of Cologne (Old French form of Middle High German
Köln, named with Latin colonia
‘colony’).English: variant of Cooling.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cullen
Name Distribution of Cullen Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cullen families
 438 - 874  147 - 437 |
 1 - 146  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cullen families
|
471 - 939 158 - 470 |
1 - 157 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cullen census records
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Cullen Family Origin
Cullen Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cullen Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cullen Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cullen census records
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Military Service by Cullen
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