Grewell Family History
Grewell Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a miller or baker from Middle English gruel(le) gruwel grouel(le) ‘meal flour’ Old French gruel. It is very rare in Britain. Variant (or perhaps the original form; see 1 above) of Gruwell a surname which could be of German English or French origin. Americanized form of German Greuel (this one is in part a cognate of Grüwell; see Gruwell and compare 2 above) or perhaps of some other similar (like-sounding) German surname e.g. Grewohl which is very rare and unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022