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First name origins & meanings:

  1. English: From the valley
  2. English, French, Latin: From the valley

First name variations: Vayle, Vale, Val, Vail, Bail, Bale, Vaile, Vaill, Vale, Vail

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Spanish and Italian: habitational name from any of the many places named with valle ‘valley’, or topographic name for someone who lived in a valley (Latin vallis).
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse vǫllr ‘field’, ‘meadow’.