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The vale Surname

vale Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.
  2. Galician and Aragonese: topographic name from val ‘valley’, or habitational name from any of the places named with this word.

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

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Distribution of vale Families in the US in 1920
Number of vale families
 27-52
 10-26		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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