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Beal

in Pennsylvania

There are 577 people with the last name "Beal" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Beal 2,128
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  1. is 2,124th most common Harpster
  2. is 2,125th most common Hatfield
  3. is 2,126th most common Hayward
  4. is 2,127th most common Schreffler
  5. is 2,128th most common Beal
  6. is 2,129th most common Fenstermaker
  7. is 2,130th most common Healey
  8. is 2,131st most common Jarvis
  9. is 2,132nd most common Pettit

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

James, Ronald, William, Michael, Joseph, Patricia, Robert, Charles, George

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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