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Beal

in Indiana

There are 515 people with the last name "Beal" in Indiana.

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Ranking in Indiana

NameRank
Beal 1,254
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  1. is 1,250th most common Garland
  2. is 1,251st most common Royer
  3. is 1,252nd most common Benjamin
  4. is 1,253rd most common Mackey
  5. is 1,254th most common Beal
  6. is 1,255th most common Mcmahon
  7. is 1,256th most common Metcalf
  8. is 1,257th most common Navarro
  9. is 1,258th most common Ridenour

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

Michael, Ernest, Robert, David, James, Brian, John, Gary, Mary, Carolyn

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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