Bethel Family History
Bethel Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Ithell ‘son of Ithel’ a personal name meaning ‘bountiful lord’. This name was adopted in Wales and elsewhere as a name for a chapel as it is a homograph of a Biblical placename meaning ‘house of God’ in Hebrew (Genesis 12 13 28 and elsewhere in the Bible). German: habitational name from Bethel in Westphalia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022