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al Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Adelhard, which is of Germanic origin, composed of the elements adal ‘noble’ + hard ‘bold’, ‘hardy’.
  2. Swedish: variant of Ahl.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The al name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the al family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of al Families in the US in 1920
Number of al families
 6-10
 3-5		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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