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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : unexplained. Perhaps a shortened form of Barzeele:
  • from Middle Dutch bariseel, Old French barisel ‘vat’, ‘barrel’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a cooper or wine merchant.
  • alternatively, perhaps, a habitational name from Bazel in East Flanders, Belgium.

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