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Bowell

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Welsh : variant of Powell (see Howell).
  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Bouelles in Seine Maritime, France, so named with Old Norman French boelle ‘enclosure’, ‘dwelling’.

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