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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Wörl) : variant of Wehrle.
  • English : perhaps a habitational name for someone from Worle in Somerset, which is most probably named with Old English wōr ‘wood grouse’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘(woodland) clearing’.

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