Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese: habitational name from any of
numerous places named with canal ‘channel’, ‘conduit’, from
Latin canalis.Spanish (Cañal) and Portuguese:
habitational name from a place named with Spanish cañal,
Portuguese canal ‘reedbed’, a derivative of Latin canna
‘reed’.Italian: variant of Canale.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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