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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : possibly from Catalan canell ‘wrist’.
  • Respelling of French Canel, a topographic name from canel ‘water-channel’, ‘pipe’, or Swiss German Känel, also a topographic name with the same meaning.

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