Family name origins & meanings
- English : metonymic occupational name for a worker in wool, Middle English woll (Old English wull).
- English : in southwestern England, a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, from Middle English wolle, wulle ‘spring’, ‘stream’, a western dialect development of Old English (West Saxon) wiell(a).
- Americanized form of French Houle.