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Beal

in Mississippi

There are 202 people with the last name "Beal" in Mississippi.

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Ranking in Mississippi

NameRank
Beal 1,675
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  1. is 1,671st most common Holbrook
  2. is 1,672nd most common Mahaffey
  3. is 1,673rd most common Mizell
  4. is 1,674th most common Priest
  5. is 1,675th most common Beal
  6. is 1,676th most common Eason
  7. is 1,677th most common East
  8. is 1,678th most common Herbert
  9. is 1,679th most common Kuhn

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

James, Carolyn, Bruce, Jerry, Jimmy, John, Kenneth, Marie, 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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