McNeill (surname)

McNeill is one of the spellings of a set of names that are similar, though the people may not be direct descendents for many thousands of years.

MacNeil is the most common or popular spelling, but there is also MacNeill, McNeil, McNeille, and a host of others. Researching genealogy it becomes clear even as recent as the 1700s, that many different spellings of a name could be used throughout one persons' life, namely because of their own illiteracy.