The howell Surname
howell Name Meaning and History
- Welsh: from the personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages in particular in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king.
- English: habitational name from Howell in Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English hugol ‘mound’, ‘hillock’ or hune ‘hoarhound’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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