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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : compound name from the personal name Thor + the common surname ending -ell, which is from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.
  • French (Huguenot) : variant spelling of French Thorel, a pet form of Thore 3.

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