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Beal

in Michigan

There are 598 people with the last name "Beal" in Michigan.

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Ranking in Michigan

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Beal 1,549
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  1. is 1,545th most common Muller
  2. is 1,546th most common Talley
  3. is 1,547th most common Watt
  4. is 1,548th most common Westbrook
  5. is 1,549th most common Beal
  6. is 1,550th most common Sheets
  7. is 1,551st most common Reinhardt
  8. is 1,552nd most common Whiting
  9. is 1,553rd most common Winn

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

James, John, David, Richard, Mary, Sandra, William, Andrew, Jennifer

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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