Frequency: (235)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: habitational name from Kettlewell in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Cheteleuuelle, from Old English cetel ‘deep valley’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
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