Buell Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Buell, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

What Buell means

The Buell last name has English roots. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “one who came from Bueil, in France”.

Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from. The 2010 US Census counted 6,522 people named Buell, ranking it number 5,338 among American surnames.

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