Twells

English

Alternative forms

• Twell, Twelves

Etymology

Contraction of Old English æt (“at, by, near”) + wielle (“well, spring”), a toponymic surname for a person who lived by a spring or stream. The final -s derives from the genitive form.

Proper noun

Twells (plural Twellses)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Twells is the 8793^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 710 individuals.

Further reading

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