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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from the lands of Carneil near Dunfermline, Fife.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of North German Ka(r)nehl, an occupational name for a spicer, from Kaneel ‘cinnamon’.

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