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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name from Old French torail, torel ‘small tower’.
  • Swedish : ornamental name from the personal name Tor (see Thor) + the common adjectival suffix -ell, from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.

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