Niles Family History
- Niles Name Meaning
- English: perhaps a patronymic from the medieval personal name Nel or Neal (see Nelson). Possibly a variant of German Neils, a derivative of the personal name Cornelius.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 383,745 Historical Documents with Niles on Ancestry
- 110,451 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 64,489 Census and Voter Lists
- 21,073 Military Records
- 7,272 Immigration Records
- 180,460 Member Trees
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Number of Niles families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Niles families
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33 - 64 12 - 32 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Niles census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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