Spanish: topographic name for someone who lived by an area of
limestone, from cal ‘lime(stone)’ (from Late Latin cals,
Latin calx).Spanish: variant of Calle.Portuguese: reduced variant of Canal.Polish
(Ca{l-}): nickname from an Old Polish variant of ca{l-}y
‘whole’, ‘entire’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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