Barrell Family History
Barrell Name Meaning
English:: from Middle English barel ‘barrel cask’ Old French baril hence a metonymic occupational name for a cooper or possibly to denote someone with a rotund figure or who drank excessively. habitational name from Barwell in Leicestershire named with Old English bār ‘wild boar’ + well(a) ‘spring stream’. (of Huguenot origin): variant of Beharrell apparently from a variant of French bihoreau ‘(black-crowned) night heron’ (from earlier buhoreau).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022