Nelan Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 5
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Nelan Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Nelan family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Nelan

Name Census Frequency
John Nelan 15
William Nelan 14
James Nelan 13
Mary Nelan 13
Eliza Nelan 8
Margaret Nelan 8
Michael Nelan 6
Alice Nelan 5
Annie Nelan 5
Elizabeth Nelan 4
Ellen Nelan 4
Patrick Nelan 4
Thomas Nelan 4
Emma Nelan 3
Violet Nelan 3
Albert Nelan 2
Catherine Nelan 2
Louisa Nelan 2
Marie Nelan 2
May Nelan 2
Richard Nelan 2
Alfred Nelan 1
Ann Nelan 1
Betsy Nelan 1
Caroline Nelan 1

Nelan Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Nolan 80% 21,203
2 Nealon 67% 383
3 Nilen 60% 222
4 Nolen 60% 178
5 Nilan 80% 176
6 Neilan 83% 157
7 Nelan 100% 152
8 Nelon 80% 120
9 Nalan 80% 118
10 Nolon 60% 110

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The surname Nelan is the 7th most popular variant of Nolan.

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