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The wahl Surname

wahl Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German Walhe, Walch ‘foreigner from a Romance country’, hence a nickname for someone from Italy or France, etc. This surname is also established in Sweden.
  2. North German: from the personal name Wole, a short form of Wol(d)er (see Wahler).
  3. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Val, from Old Norse vaðill ‘ford’, ‘shallows’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wahl Families in the US in 1920
Number of wahl families
 130-258
 44-129		 1-43
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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