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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