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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Worrall in South Yorkshire, named with Old English wīr ‘bog myrtle’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’. The Wirral peninsula in Cheshire has the same origin and may well be the source of the surname in some cases.

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