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Beal

in Texas

There are 1,337 people with the last name "Beal" in Texas.

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Ranking in Texas

NameRank
Beal 1,705
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  1. is 1,701st most common Culpepper
  2. is 1,702nd most common Huggins
  3. is 1,703rd most common Trimble
  4. is 1,704th most common Lockett
  5. is 1,705th most common Beal
  6. is 1,706th most common Mouton
  7. is 1,707th most common Shipp
  8. is 1,708th most common Novak
  9. is 1,709th most common Kline

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

James, Robert, John, David, Mary, Carol, Charles, Michael, Patricia, Barbara

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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