Neil is a given name of Gaelic origin. The Goidelic languages, (also sometimes called particularly in colloquial situations the Gaelic languages or collectively Gaelic) historically formed a Dialect The name is a perfection of 'Niall', perhaps derived from the vocative form, 'Nèill'. Niall is a male given name of Gaelic ( Irish) origin derived from the Irish Niachas meaning " Chivalry " or champion Niall may The vocative case is the case used for a Noun identifying the person (animal object etc It comes into French and Norman-Latin as Nigell -us, originally pronounced almost identically. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. The name, like many Gaelic names, was borrowed into Norse, where it became Njál. Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age The original Gaelic meaning of Neil is unclear, but Champion or Cloud are the most popular meanings assigned to it.

The unrelated Indian name 'Neel' (blue) has overlapping variants 'Neal' and 'Neil'. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country 'Neel' comes from the Sanskrit word Nilakantha (pronounced as neela-kanta), which refers to the hue (sky blue color) of the Hindu deity Shiva's neck as he drinks poison. Sanskrit (sa संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, for short sa संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam) is a historical A Hindu ( Devanagari: हिन्दू is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, a set of religious, Philosophical Shiva:(pronunciation; Sanskrit: शिव Śiva, lit "Auspicious one" One of the Trimurtis Shiva is the supreme God in the Shaiva

Variants

Anglicised variants include:

• Neal
• Neale
• Neall
• Neill
• Nellus
• Niel

• Neel
• Nil
• Nigel
• Kneale

See also

• MacNeil
• Neill
• Nelson
• O'Neill