O'Boyl is used as a family name or surname in Ireland. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: O'Boyl
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Ireland
Meaning:

The family name is variation of the Hills. See Hill - From residence upon one. Its medieval form is Atte -Hill. The London Direct, has more than two hundred traders of this name, besides about one-eighth of that number in the pluralized form of Hills. The most distinguished family of this name, the Hills of Hawkstone (Vis count Hill), deduce themselves from Hugh de la Hulle ('of the Hill'), who held the estate of Court of Hill in the parish of Burford, county of Salop, temp. Richard I. The Hills of Stallington, county of Stafford, are descended from the family of De Monte, of Castle Morton, county of Worcester, and they bore that name till the XV century, when it was anglicized to Hyll.

Family name is the variant of Boyle. Sir Richard B., father of Sir Robert B., one of the barons of Scotland who swore fealty to Edward I. in 1296, was of Kelburne in N.B. It is probable that he was of Norman descent, and that the surname is a moditication of Boville, as it was written Boyvill or Boyvile in the XIII. and XIV. century.

The surname O'Boyl is the variation of Boyall. A corruption of Boyle? - Sir Richard B., father of Sir Robert B., one of the barons of Scotland who swore fealty to Edward I. in 1296, was of Kelburne in N.B. It is probable that he was of Norman descent, and that the surname is a moditication of Boville, as it was written Boyvill or Boyvile in the XIII. and XIV. century.

Variant of the O'Boyle. Grandson of Baoigheall meaning "vain pledge".

O'Boyl is the variation of Boyle. Grandson of Baoigheall meaning "vain pledge"; one who came from Beauville, the name of two places in France.

Family name O'Boyl is the variation of Hill. Dweller on, or near, a hill, or on rising ground; one who came from Hill, the name of several places in England.

Is variation of the Hill. From residence upon one. Its medieval form is Atte -Hill. The London Direct, has more than two hundred traders of this name, besides about one-eighth of that number in the pluralized form of Hills. The most distinguished family of this name, the Hills of Hawkstone (Vis count Hill), deduce themselves from Hugh de la Hulle ('of the Hill'), who held the estate of Court of Hill in the parish of Burford, county of Salop, temp. Richard I. The Hills of Stallington, county of Stafford, are descended from the family of De Monte, of Castle Morton, county of Worcester, and they bore that name till the XV century, when it was anglicized to Hyll.

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