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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a worker in wool, Middle English woll (Old English wull).
  • English : in southwestern England, a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, from Middle English wolle, wulle ‘spring’, ‘stream’, a western dialect development of Old English (West Saxon) wiell(a).
  • Americanized form of French Houle.

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