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Beal

in Rhode Island

There are 33 people with the last name "Beal" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

NameRank
Beal 4,181
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  1. is 4,177th most common Andino
  2. is 4,178th most common Badway
  3. is 4,179th most common Bartholomew
  4. is 4,180th most common Beach
  5. is 4,181st most common Beal
  6. is 4,182nd most common Beaudette
  7. is 4,183rd most common Bellows
  8. is 4,184th most common Bergstrom
  9. is 4,185th most common Berthelette

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

Scott, Barbara, Edna, Lorraine, Annette, Bo, Boylston, Bruce, Carolyn, Charles

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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