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Beal

in Massachusetts

There are 381 people with the last name "Beal" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Beal 1,990
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  1. is 1,986th most common Ellison
  2. is 1,987th most common Michaels
  3. is 1,988th most common Stratton
  4. is 1,989th most common Aubin
  5. is 1,990th most common Beal
  6. is 1,991st most common Caswell
  7. is 1,992nd most common Holloway
  8. is 1,993rd most common Peter
  9. is 1,994th most common Pontes

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

Michael, Robert, John, Bruce, Kenneth, Richard, David, Douglas, Jennifer, Mark

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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