Wahl Family History
Wahl Name Meaning
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.North German: from the personal name
Wole, a short form of Wol(d)er (see Wahler).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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Name Distribution of Wahl Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wahl families
 130 - 258  44 - 129 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wahl families
|
14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Wahl Family Origin
Wahl Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Wahl
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Wahl Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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