Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Fertilized pasture
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname from Middle English gorrell ‘fat man’ (from Old French gorel ‘pig’).
- English : from the Old English personal name Gārwulf, composed of the elements gār ‘spear’ + wulf ‘wolf’.
- English : habitational name from any of various places named with Old English gor ‘dirt’, ‘mud’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’, such as Gorwell in Essex and Dorset, or Gorrell in Devon.