Odell

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• English : habitational name from a place in Bedfordshire, also called Woodhill, from Old English wād ‘woad’ (a plant collected for the blue dye that could be obtained from it) + hyll ‘hill’. Compare Waddell.
• English : (O’Dell) of the same origin as 1, but altered by folk etymology as if of Irish origin.