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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Shakespearean: From Henry VIII
  2. Old English: Winding stream

Last name origin & meaning:

English: habitational name from places in Nottinghamshire and West Yorkshire named Cromwell, from Old English crumb ‘bent’, ‘crooked’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

This name appears in the following lists: Names from Shakespeare