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Beal

in Iowa

There are 244 people with the last name "Beal" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

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Beal 1,289
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  1. is 1,285th most common Schreiber
  2. is 1,286th most common Sickels
  3. is 1,287th most common Vangorp
  4. is 1,288th most common Avery
  5. is 1,289th most common Beal
  6. is 1,290th most common Burroughs
  7. is 1,291st most common Connor
  8. is 1,292nd most common Craft
  9. is 1,293rd most common David

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

James, John, Donald, Janet, Janice, Jeremy, Joshua, Michael, William, Austin

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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