Where Does the Weill Surname Come From?

Arms linked to Weil and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Written in a baptism entry or a ship's list, Weill usually leads back to Weil. The name is usually explained as “Someone from Weil in Württemberg”.

The extra “l” in Weill is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The 2010 US Census counted 513 people named Weill, ranking it number 42,308 among American surnames. French civil records give 2,118 births under the name Weill from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1901–1910.

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