Frequency: (3897)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English and Scottish: variant spelling of Beal.
FOREBEARS: Ninian Beall, a Scottish Royalist, emigrated to Calvert co., MD, in about 1650, after King Charles I was beheaded.
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