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Beal

in Tennessee

There are 578 people with the last name "Beal" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

NameRank
Beal 1,340
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  1. is 1,336th most common Cleveland
  2. is 1,337th most common Gilliland
  3. is 1,338th most common Mccracken
  4. is 1,339th most common Dempsey
  5. is 1,340th most common Beal
  6. is 1,341st most common Delaney
  7. is 1,342nd most common Hewitt
  8. is 1,343rd most common Mcclendon
  9. is 1,344th most common Meyers

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

Michael, Thomas, William, Charles, David, George, John, Linda, Judy, Mary

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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