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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : To shine

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : nickname for someone with a pock-marked face, from Old Northern French greslé ‘pitted’, ‘scarred’ (from gresle ‘hailstone’, of Germanic origin).

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