English: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley,
Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin
vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it
has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.Galician and
Aragonese: topographic name from val ‘valley’, or habitational
name from any of the places named with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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