Neat Family History
- Neat Name Meaning
- English: metonymic occupational name for a herdsman in charge of cattle or a nickname for someone thought to resemble an ox or a cow, from Middle English neat ‘ox’, ‘cow’ (Old English neat). The modern English adjective neat (via French from Latin nitidus ‘clean’, ‘shining’) does not occur before the 16th century, after the main period of surname formation.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 58,857 Historical Documents with Neat on Ancestry
- 26,087 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,176 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,732 Military Records
- 528 Immigration Records
- 16,334 Member Trees
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Number of Neat families
 52 - 101  18 - 51 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Neat census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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