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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech : from the personal name Havel (see Gall 2).
  • French : metonymic occupational name from Old French haf ‘hook’, ‘pickaxe’.
  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch houweel, hauweel ‘hoe’, ‘mattock’, ‘pick’, diminutive of Old Dutch hauwa.

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