Släkthistoria för Dumbell
Dumbell Vad efternamn betyder
see Dumville. from a diminutive of dumb ‘mute; dumbfounded; reticent; stupid’. Compare Hants dialect dummell ‘slow to understand’ dumble ‘stupid’. Some examples may belong at (1).in some instances Dumbulle may be for dunn bull; compare Duncalf.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
