Is There a Wool Coat of Arms?

Wool began as an English family name. Smith's 1956 dictionary gives the meaning “one who came from Wool (springs), in Dorset”. Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from.

In the 2010 US Census, 817 Americans gave Wool as their last name (rank 29,041). Wool sounds close to Woll, so it can help to search both.

If a Wool family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows. For the full story, order the Wool surname pack.