English: habitational name from Worrall in South Yorkshire, named
with Old English wir ‘bog myrtle’ + halh ‘nook’,
‘recess’. The Wirral peninsula in Cheshire has the same origin and may
well be the source of the surname in some cases.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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