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In all the world, Laurell (Laurell , לורל , لوريل ) is a rare principally female, but very infrequently male first name. The first name Laurell is characteristic of the United States, where it is a rare principally girly, but very infrequently masculine name, South Africa, where it is a very rare female name, and Australia. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in the United States, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Likewise, Laurell is the last name as well as the forename.
Laurell is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Laurel Lance , the fictional character from the television series Arrow, The Flash; Black Canary (Dinah Lance) , the DC comics character, introduced 1969, Justice League of America; Silk Spectre II , the Watchmen character; Laurel Lance , the fictional character from Earth-2 in the television series Arrow and The Flash and Laurel Castillo , character in How to Get Away with Murder, and in many other works.