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Beal

in Kentucky

There are 166 people with the last name "Beal" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Beal 2,775
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  1. is 2,771st most common Trice
  2. is 2,772nd most common Wallingford
  3. is 2,773rd most common Winkle
  4. is 2,774th most common Albert
  5. is 2,775th most common Beal
  6. is 2,776th most common Blakley
  7. is 2,777th most common Brian
  8. is 2,778th most common Brumback
  9. is 2,779th most common Bybee

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

James, John, Linda, Paul, Charles, Donald, Elizabeth, Jennifer, Michael, Rebecca

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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