Doel Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Clerks wrote Dowell in many ways, and Doel is one that stuck. The name is usually explained as “Dark foreigner”. Doel is listed among the recognised spellings of Dowell. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Dowel.

The 2010 census count for Doel in the United States was 201, good for rank 91,625. It sits within the 100,000 most common last names in the country. Doel sounds close to Dell, so it can help to search both.

Arms linked to Dowell and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Doel report, with a museum-style coat of arms.