Giel Family History
- Giel Name Meaning
- from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius, from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’. Compare English Giles. in some instances, an altered spelling of Geil.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 22,828 Historical Documents with Giel on Ancestry
- 11,308 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,656 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,165 Military Records
- 1,305 Immigration Records
- 4,394 Member Trees
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Number of Giel families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Giel last name |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Giel census records
You can see how Giel families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
Click on a place to view Giel immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Giel families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the Canadian Passenger Lists
Click on a circle in the chart to view Giel immigration records
You can find out when most of the Giel families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Giel census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Giel ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Giels fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
×