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Beal

in North Carolina

There are 1,179 people with the last name "Beal" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

NameRank
Beal 917
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  1. is 913th most common Schultz
  2. is 914th most common Bunch
  3. is 915th most common Barr
  4. is 916th most common Bean
  5. is 917th most common Beal
  6. is 918th most common Hooks
  7. is 919th most common Womack
  8. is 920th most common Huneycutt
  9. is 921st most common Goodson

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

Robert, John, Michael, David, James, Donald, William, Elizabeth, Mary, Daniel

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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