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Beal

in Alabama

There are 276 people with the last name "Beal" in Alabama.

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Ranking in Alabama

NameRank
Beal 2,063
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  1. is 2,059th most common Tisdale
  2. is 2,060th most common Turley
  3. is 2,061st most common Westmoreland
  4. is 2,062nd most common Messick
  5. is 2,063rd most common Beal
  6. is 2,064th most common Cargile
  7. is 2,065th most common Catrett
  8. is 2,066th most common Felton
  9. is 2,067th most common Grisham

Similar Names and Nicknames

Bell, Beall, Beale, Beals, Bello, Belle, Bealer, Bella, Bewley, Bellew

Most Common First Names for Beal

John, James, William, Jeffery, Jeffrey, Mary, Patricia, Willie, Amanda, Cindy

Meaning & History

English (of Norman origin): from Old French bel(e) ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ (see Beau), either a nickname for a handsome man or a metronymic from this word used as a female personal name.

English: habitational name from places so named in Northumberland and West Yorkshire. The former of these (Behil in early records) comes from Old English bēo ‘bee’ + hyll ‘hill’; the latter (Begale in Domesday Book) is from Old English bēag ‘ring’, here probably used in the sense ‘river bend’, or an unattested personal name Bēaga derived from this word + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.

French (Béal): topographic name for someone who lived by a mill race, from the Lyonnaise dialect term béal, bezale, bedale (of Gaulish origin).

Americanized spelling of German Biehl or Bühl (see Buehl).

FOREBEARS Lt. Col. Thomas Beal(e) (c. 1621–c. 1676) of London settled in York Co., VA, about 1650.

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