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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of French Garrel, possibly from a derivative of Old French garre ‘colorful’, ‘two-tone’.
  • Possibly a respelling of German Garrel, a habitational name from a place so named near Oldenburg.

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