Grewell Family History

English: metonymic occupational name for a miller or baker from Middle English gruel(le) gruwel grouel(le) ‘meal flour’ Old French gruel. It is very rare in Britain.

Variant (or perhaps the original form; see 1 above) of Gruwell a surname which could be of German, English, or French origin.

Americanized form of German Greuel (this one is in part a cognate of Grüwell; see Gruwell and compare 2 above) or perhaps of some other similar (like-sounding) German surname.

e.g. Grewohl, which is very rare and unexplained.