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Beal

in Maryland

There are 316 people with the last name "Beal" in Maryland.

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Ranking in Maryland

NameRank
Beal 1,738
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  1. is 1,734th most common Ringgold
  2. is 1,735th most common Burkett
  3. is 1,736th most common Lantz
  4. is 1,737th most common Magee
  5. is 1,738th most common Beal
  6. is 1,739th most common Crawley
  7. is 1,740th most common Cropper
  8. is 1,741st most common Laws
  9. is 1,742nd most common Franz

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

Michael, James, Robert, Patricia, Charles, David, Donald, George, Gregory, Karen

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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