"Greek, English, Scottish: Manly, brave; from the Greek Andreas; In the Bible, Andrew is the first of the twelve apostles chosen by Jesus and the brother of Peter. Andrew is a patron saint of Greece, Scotland, and Russia."
http://www.babyzone.com/babynames...asp?ID=900

The trouble is, Neil is also quite a common British first name, so I get lots of people calling me "Neil" - it's happened several times both here and on the Keil forum.

My famous media personality namesake is editor of The Scotsman newspaper, and previously editor of the Sunday Times newspaper - so you'll find a lot of that if you Google for "Andrew Neil"
eg, http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/s...96,00.html

...and there are dozens of variant spellings of Neil, Neill, Neal, Neale, Kneil...