Neat Family History
Neat Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a herdsman in charge of
cattle or a nickname for someone thought to resemble an ox or a cow,
from Middle English neat ‘ox’, ‘cow’ (Old English
neat). The modern English adjective neat (via French
from Latin nitidus ‘clean’, ‘shining’) does not occur before
the 16th century, after the main period of surname formation.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Neat
Name Distribution of Neat Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Neat families
 52 - 101  18 - 51 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Neat last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Neat census records
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Neat Family Origin
Neat Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Neat Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Neat census records
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