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Howell

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Updated February 15, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

English : Hill

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Howell

Family name origins & meanings

Welsh : from the personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages in particular in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king.
English : habitational name from Howell in Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English hugol ‘mound’, ‘hillock’ or hūne ‘hoarhound’.

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