Jarrells Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Arms linked to Jarrell and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Jarrells means

Jarrells is best understood alongside Jarrell: both are English spellings of one family name. Name scholars give the meaning as “Descendant of Jarrold, a variant of Gerald (spear, firm)”.

Jarrells adds a patronymic ending to Jarrell, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The 2010 US Census counted 920 people named Jarrells, ranking it number 26,516 among American surnames.

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