Frequency: (242)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Czech (Kálal): occupational name for a woodcutter, from a Moravian dialect derivative of kálat ‘to hew’, ‘to cut (a block of wood)’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
