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Beal

in New Hampshire

There are 132 people with the last name "Beal" in New Hampshire.

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Ranking in New Hampshire

NameRank
Beal 1,317
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  1. is 1,313th most common Mcintire
  2. is 1,314th most common Parenteau
  3. is 1,315th most common Ramsay
  4. is 1,316th most common Robitaille
  5. is 1,317th most common Beal
  6. is 1,318th most common Bowers
  7. is 1,319th most common Denis
  8. is 1,320th most common Hannon
  9. is 1,321st most common Lebel

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

James, Linda, Nancy, Thomas, Colleen, Jeffrey, Keith, Morris, Robert

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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