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Beal

in the US

There are 17,343 people with the last name "Beal" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Beal 1,575
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  1. is 1,571st most common Houser
  2. is 1,572nd most common Bassett
  3. is 1,573rd most common Root
  4. is 1,574th most common Castle
  5. is 1,575th most common Beal
  6. is 1,576th most common Mcwilliams
  7. is 1,577th most common Deal
  8. is 1,578th most common Colbert
  9. is 1,579th most common Wilhelm

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beal

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

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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