Neild
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Frequency: (200)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish and Scottish: variant of Neill. The excrescent -d results from an English mishearing of the devoicing of final -l in Gaelic.
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