Neal

NEEL
Irish
"champion or cloud"

Neal Origin and Meaning

The name Neal is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "champion or cloud".

Always the less common spelling of Irish classic Neil, Neal has been on a fifty-year slide, and now doesn't even make the Top 1000. It has a streamlined, surnamey appeal in this spelling.

# 951 in the US

Neal Rank in US Top 1000

Neal Popularity

Famous People Named Neal

  • Neal McDonough
    American actor
  • Neal Leon Cassady
    American Beat figure, inspiration for "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
  • Neal Adams
    American comic book artist
  • Neal Eugene Walk
    American basketball player
  • Neal George Joseph Schon
    American guitarist of bands Journey and Bad English
  • Neal Hefti
    American jazz trumpeter
  • Neal Morse
    American progressive rock musician
  • Neal McCoy (born Hubert Neal McGaughey
    Jr.), American country music singer
  • Neal Town Stephenson
    American novelist
  • Neal Elgar Miller
    American experimental psychologist
  • Neal Carter
    son of American rapper Lil Wayne
  • Neal Pert
    Drummer and main songwriter for the Canadian rock band Rush
  • Christopher Neal Jackson
    American actor, singer, musician, and composer

Neal in Pop Culture

  • Neal Caffrey
    main character on "White Collar"
  • Neal Burke
    Peter and Elizabeth's son (named after Caffrey) on "White Collar"
  • Neal Cassidy aka Baelfire
    character on "Once Upon a Time"
  • Neal Scott
    character from "This Golden Land" by Barbara Wood
  • Nealan "Neal" of Queenscove
    character from the Tortall series by Tamora Pierce