Thelwall

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Thelwell

Etymology

From Old English þel (“board, plank”) + wēl (“deep pool”), later confused with wella (“well, spring, stream”).

Proper noun

Thelwall (countable and uncountable, plural Thelwalls)

1. A suburban village in Grappenhall and Thelwall parish, Warrington borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6487).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Thelwall is the 35632^nd most common surname in England, belonging to 94 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Thelwall”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears