Family name origins & meanings
- German (Güll) : from the personal name Aegilius.
- South German and Swiss German : topographic name from Middle High German gülle ‘(swampy) puddle’.
- Catalan (Güell) : habitational name from any of the places named Güell, in particular in Girona and Lleida provinces, Catalonia, named with Latin vadellum ‘little ford’.