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cal Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish: topographic name for someone who lived by an area of limestone, from cal ‘lime(stone)’ (from Late Latin cals, Latin calx).
  2. Spanish: variant of Calle.
  3. Portuguese: reduced variant of Canal.
  4. Polish (Ca{l-}): nickname from an Old Polish variant of ca{l-}y ‘whole’, ‘entire’.

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Distribution of cal Families in the US in 1920
Number of cal families
 9-15
 4-8
 1-3
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