Etymology

Cromwell

Crom·well
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Today it means: An English habitational surname from Old English from any of several placenames. Full definition →

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The story

From Old English crump (“crooked, bent”) + wella (“spring”), equivalent to crump + well.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.