Yool is used as a family name or surname in Scotland. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Yool
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Scotland
Meaning:

Yool is the variation of Youel. The same as Yule - The Old English (from Anglo-Saxon) designation of the season-now called Christmas. In curious old dictionary of Blount, called Glossographia, is the following passage:-
"In Yorkshire and our other northern parts, they have an old custome after sermon or service on Christmas day; the people will, even in the churches, cry Ule, le, as a token of rejoicing, and the common sort run about the streets singing,
"Ule, Ule, Ule,
Three puddings in a pule,
Crack nuts and cry Ule."

Yool is the variant of Yeowell. Perhaps the same as Whewell, or as Yule - Whewell Grange in Staffordshire, sometimes written Hewell, is known in history as the place where some of the conspirators of the Powder Plot took refuge in 1605. It has been remarked of this name, that it is more easily whistled than spoken! The initial W is, however, rarely pronounced.

The variant form of Ewell. 1. A town in Surrey. 2. Ewald, an Anglo-Saxon personal name.

Yool is variant of Yule. Dweller near a yew tree; descendant of Yule meaning "Christmas".

Family name Yool is the variant form of Yell. One who came from Yell, i.e., barren, an island in the Shetland group.

Yule, Old English Christmas.

Surname is the variation of Youle. See Yule - The Old English (from Anglo-Saxon) designation of the season-now called Christmas. In curious old dictionary of Blount, called Glossographia, is the following passage:-
"In Yorkshire and our other northern parts, they have an old custome after sermon or service on Christmas day; the people will, even in the churches, cry Ule, le, as a token of rejoicing, and the common sort run about the streets singing,
"Ule, Ule, Ule,
Three puddings in a pule,
Crack nuts and cry Ule."

Variant form of Yule. The Old English (from Anglo-Saxon) designation of the season-now called Christmas. In curious old dictionary of Blount, called Glossographia, is the following passage:-
"In Yorkshire and our other northern parts, they have an old custome after sermon or service on Christmas day; the people will, even in the churches, cry Ule, le, as a token of rejoicing, and the common sort run about the streets singing,
"Ule, Ule, Ule,
Three puddings in a pule,
Crack nuts and cry Ule."

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