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Beal

in Ohio

There are 1,123 people with the last name "Beal" in Ohio.

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Ranking in Ohio

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Beal 971
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  1. is 967th most common Odell
  2. is 968th most common Albert
  3. is 969th most common Diehl
  4. is 970th most common Jamison
  5. is 971st most common Beal
  6. is 972nd most common Riffle
  7. is 973rd most common Koehler
  8. is 974th most common Pryor
  9. is 975th most common Beasley

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

David, Michael, John, Robert, William, Richard, James, Mary, Charles, Donald

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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