Meaning and Origin of: Rockwell

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Rock fortress
  • English : From the rocky spring

Boy name variations

Rochester
Rocky
Rock
Rocho
Roche
Rockley
Rockne
Rocker
Rockwelle

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire and Somerset. The former was earlier Rockholt, and was so named from Old English hrōc ‘rook’ (perhaps a byname) + holt ‘wood’. The second element of the Somerset place is probably (and more predictably) Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ (see Well).