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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Old French carrel, ‘pillow’, ‘bolster’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of these.
  • In some cases perhaps an altered spelling of Irish Carroll. In other cases perhaps an altered spelling of French Carrel.

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