Given name & surname · also Norman
Revell
“rebellious”
Revell is a surname from Norman, ultimately from Old French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Revell goes back to Old French revel, meaning “rebellious.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Revell comes from Norman, and ultimately from Old French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1938. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Revell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 27 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1987. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 139 as a first name in 2020; 2,759 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Revell’s family of names
In English usage, Revell as a surname has a related form in REVEL.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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