Beal Family History
Beal Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from Old French bel(e)
‘fair’, ‘lovely’ (see Beau), either a nickname for a handsome
man or a metronymic from this word used as a female personal name.English: habitational name from places so named in
Northumberland and West Yorkshire. The former of these (Behil
in early records) comes from Old English beo ‘bee’ +
hyll ‘hill’; the latter (Begale in Domesday Book) is
from Old English beag ‘ring’, here probably used in the
sense ‘river bend’, or an unattested personal name Beaga
derived from this word + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.French (Béal): topographic name for someone who lived by
a mill race, from the Lyonnaise dialect term béal,
bezale, bedale (of Gaulish origin).Americanized
spelling of German Biehl or Bühl (see Buehl).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Beal Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Beal families
 137 - 272  46 - 136 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Beal families
|
332 - 662 111 - 331 |
1 - 110 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Beal families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Beal Family Origin
Beal Immigration Information
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Beal Family Occupations
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