Entry № 9889 · English origin

Sorrel Sorrel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOR-el /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"A woodland herb"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a woodland herb".

Sorrel is a bright, tangy woodland herb, and also a warm reddish-brown; its name has a fresh, green feel.

Soft and natural, it makes a gentle, earthy nature name.

A woodland herb — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Sorrel
Transliteration
Sorrel
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɒ.ɾel /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sorrel stands.

Sorrel does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sorrels before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Sorrel.

The number behind Sorrel.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sorrel reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.