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Fennell

in the US

There are 9,569 people with the last name "Fennell" in the United States.

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Fennell 2,920
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  1. is 2,916th most common Witherspoon
  2. is 2,917th most common Denson
  3. is 2,918th most common Kroll
  4. is 2,919th most common Stuckey
  5. is 2,920th most common Fennell
  6. is 2,921st most common Waldrop
  7. is 2,922nd most common Roush
  8. is 2,923rd most common Stanfield
  9. is 2,924th most common Haggerty

Similar Names and Nicknames

Fenner, Fenn, Finnell, Fennelly, Fennel, Fennessy, Fennimore, Fennessey, Fennema, Fenno

Most Common First Names for Fennell

James, John, William, Robert, Michael, Mary, Thomas, David, Richard, Barbara

Meaning & History

English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of fennel (Old English finugle, fenol, from Late Latin fenuculum). Fennel was widely used in the Middle Ages as a herb for seasoning. The surname may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived near a place where the herb grew or was grown.

English: Reaney also identifies this as a derivative of Fitz Neal ‘son of Neal’, citing as an example Fennells Wood, a place name recorded in 1391 as Fenelgrove and named for a Robert FitzNeel (1283).

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fionnghail ‘descendant of Fionnghal ’, a personal name composed of the elements fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ + gal ‘valor’.

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