Last name origins & meanings:
- Welsh: from the Welsh personal name Ith(a)el, Old Welsh
Iudhail ‘bountiful lord’.
- English: habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, which
is probably named with a derivative of Old English īdel
‘unused ground’, ‘patch of waste land’.
- English: derogatory
nickname from Middle English idel ‘idle’, ‘indolent’,
‘useless’, ‘worthless’, ‘devoid of good works’.
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