Släkthistoria för Dagwell
Dagwell Vad efternamn betyder
probably for a wolf-hunter from Middle English daggen ‘to pierce with a pointed weapon’ (such as a dagger) + Middle English wolf. Weakly stressed -wolf has been reduced to /wəl/ and re-etymologized as -well as though it were a locative name.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
