First name origin & meaning: Old English: He who dwells with eagles Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from a place in West Sussex, seat of
the Dukes of Norfolk, named Arundel, from Old English
hārhūne ‘horehound’ (a plant) + dell ‘valley’.
- English: nickname for someone supposedly
resembling a swallow, from Old French arondel, diminutive of
arond ‘swallow’ (Latin hirundo, confused with
(h)arundo ‘reed’).
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