Cranwell Family History
Cranwell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Cranwell in Lincolnshire named from Old English cran ‘crane heron’ + wella ‘spring stream’ or Cranwell in Waddesdon Buckinghamshire which shares the same second element with the first element derived from Old English crymban ‘to bend or wind’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022