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canal Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese: habitational name from any of numerous places named with canal ‘channel’, ‘conduit’, from Latin canalis.
  2. Spanish (Cañal) and Portuguese: habitational name from a place named with Spanish cañal, Portuguese canal ‘reedbed’, a derivative of Latin canna ‘reed’.
  3. Italian: variant of Canale.

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

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

canal Family Facts

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Distribution of canal Families in the US in 1920
Number of canal families
 7-11
 3-6		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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