Dial Family History
- Dial Name Meaning
- English: of uncertain origin; possibly an altered form of Irish Doyle. Compare Dyal. Name found among people of Indian origin in Guyana and Trinidad: altered spelling of Dayal. This spelling is found in Indian names occasionally when -dial is the final element of a compound personal name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 297,955 Historical Documents with Dial on Ancestry
- 91,157 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 35,856 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,427 Military Records
- 1,935 Immigration Records
- 156,580 Member Trees
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Number of Dial families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dial census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Dial census records
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