Meals Family History
Meals Name Meaning
English:: variant of Meale with post-medieval excrescent -s. One origin of Meale is as a nickname from Middle English mele ‘meal ground cereal’ perhaps for a maker or seller of meal. Compare Millman . variant of Meale with plural -s. An alternative origin of Meale is as a topographic name from Middle English mele ‘sand-hill’ (Old Norse melr) as found in such placenames as North Meols Ravensmeols (both Lancashire) and Great Meols (Cheshire).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022