Nail Family History
- Nail Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English naile, nayle ‘nail’ (from Old English nægel), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of nails, or as a nickname for a tall thin person. Americanized form of German Nagel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 209,077 Historical Documents with Nail on Ancestry
- 56,327 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 30,101 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,191 Military Records
- 1,542 Immigration Records
- 112,916 Member Trees
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Number of Nail families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nail families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Nail 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
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