What is the name meaning of HOWEL. Phrases containing HOWEL
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HOWEL
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English
Anglicized form of Welsh Hywel, HOWELL means "eminent, conspicuous."
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Arthurian Legend Welsh
Killed by Arthur.
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Welsh
Son of Howell.
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Arthurian
, (lordly); a king of Brittany.
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English (also common in Wales)
English (also common in Wales) : patronymic from the Middle English and Anglo-Norman French personal name Hugh.Welsh : variant of Howells.Irish and Scottish : variant Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Aodha (see McCoy).
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American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Welsh
Alert One; Eminent; Remarkable
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Welsh
Welsh : variant of Powell (see Howell).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Bouelles in Seine Maritime, France, so named with Old Norman French boelle ‘enclosure’, ‘dwelling’.
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Australian, British, Celtic, English
Surname Related to Paul; Small; Son of Howell
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Celtic Welsh
Son of Howell.
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Welsh Celtic
Son of Howell.
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Welsh
Welsh : from the personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages in particular in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king.English : habitational name from Howell in Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English hugol ‘mound’, ‘hillock’ or hūne ‘hoarhound’.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Howell, HOWEL means "eminent, conspicuous."
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English (of Welsh origin)
English (of Welsh origin) : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell).Irish : mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of St. Paul’ (see Guilfoyle).This surname is extremely common in Wales and has also spread throughout England and Ireland. The first recorded occurrence of the surname in its modern form is Roger ap Howell, alias Powell, named in a lawsuit in 1563. He was the grandson of Howell ap John (d. 1535). Snelling Powell, born in Carmarthen, Wales, in 1758, came to America in 1793 and was a successful actor and theater manager in Boston. Later members of the family include the novelist Anthony Powell (b. 1905).
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Welsh American
Eminent. Attentive.
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n.
A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.
v. t.
To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.
n.
The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.