The revel Surname
revel Name Meaning and History
- English: variant spelling of Revell.
- French: habitational name from any of the places so named, for example in Isère and Haute-Garonne.
- French and southern French: nickname from Old French, Occitan reveau ‘rebel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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