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Beal

in Georgia

There are 613 people with the last name "Beal" in Georgia.

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Ranking in Georgia

NameRank
Beal 1,644
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  1. is 1,640th most common Dewberry
  2. is 1,641st most common Osborn
  3. is 1,642nd most common Pirkle
  4. is 1,643rd most common Amerson
  5. is 1,644th most common Beal
  6. is 1,645th most common Daughtry
  7. is 1,646th most common Dickens
  8. is 1,647th most common Fussell
  9. is 1,648th most common Braddy

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

John, Michael, Robert, James, Mary, Brian, Richard, David, Charles, Christy

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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