Beale

For other uses, see Beale (disambiguation).
Beale
Family name
Meaning "handsome man"; "fair, beautiful"; "son of Bel"; "bee-hill"
Region of origin England
Language(s) of origin Old French, Old English (Norman or Anglo-Saxon)
Related names Beal
Footnotes: Frequency Comparisons: [1]

Beale is an English surname. At the time of the British Census of 1881,[1] its relative frequency was highest in Dorset (6.3 times the British average), followed by Huntingdonshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Kent and Surrey.

The name Beale may refer to:

People

as given name

Bielchovsky

In Britain, in some cases, the name Beale is of a Polish and German root, being Anglicized from, Bielchovsky. This line is of German/Polish-Jewish (Ashkenazi) origin.

Many of this line came into Britain before 1940.

Characters

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 "beale Surname Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2014
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