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burrell Name Meaning and History

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold coarse woolen cloth, Middle English burel or borel (from Old French burel, a diminutive of b(o)ure); the same word was used adjectively in the sense ‘reddish brown’ and may have been applied as a nickname referring to dress or complexion. Compare Borel.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of burrell Families in the US in 1920
Number of burrell families
 106-210
 36-105		 1-35
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