"Traditional English name"
The name Purnell is commonly a male name from the "English" origin.
Purnell is an English surname, and its use as a given name is recorded mainly in the United States. English surname dictionaries trace it to the Middle English personal name Pernel, a vernacular form of Petronilla, a woman's name found in medieval English records. The surname is thus a patronymic type, originally identifying a person as a member of the family of someone named Pernel.
The pronunciation of Purnell is PUR-nel.
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