Keel Family History
- Keel Name Meaning
- 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’. Irish: reduced form of McKeel. Swiss German: probably a variant of Kehl 2. Americanized spelling of German Kühl (see Kuhl) or Kiehl, Kiel (see Kiel).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 278,586 Historical Documents with Keel on Ancestry
- 78,953 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 41,212 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,280 Military Records
- 3,034 Immigration Records
- 146,107 Member Trees
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Number of Keel families
 64 - 126  22 - 63 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Keel families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Keel census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Keel census records
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