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Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern French : from Old French veel ‘calf’, with the definite article le; apparently a nickname for an indolent person (from its colloquial sense of ‘lump’, ‘clod’).

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