as a Last Name
- 2,569
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Carnell
Meaning & Origins
English: apparently a metonymic occupational name for a crossbowman who specialized in fighting from the battlements of castles, from Anglo-Norman French carnel ‘battlement’, ‘embrasure’ (a metathesized form of crenel, Late Latin crenellus, a diminutive of crena ‘notch’).
| 12,124th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,569
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Carnell per capita
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