Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Certain, valley of trees

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Yewdale in Lancashire, so named from Old English īw ‘yew tree’ + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.

Subscribe to Family Education

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe