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Updated February 20, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Shakespearean : From Henry VIII
  • Old English : Winding stream

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Nottinghamshire and West Yorkshire named Cromwell, from Old English crumb ‘bent’, ‘crooked’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

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