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The regal Surname

regal Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish: topographic name for someone who lived by a pool formed by a stream.
  2. southern French (Occitan): nickname from the old Béarn dialect term régal ‘royal’. Compare Ray 1.
  3. Southern French (Occitan): topographic name for someone who lived near a stream, from a derivative of rega (masculine form rec) ‘stream’, ‘torrent’.

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

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

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Distribution of regal Families in the US in 1920
Number of regal families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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