First name origins & meanings:
- English: From the valley
- English, French, Latin: From the valley
First name variations: Vayle, Vale, Val, Vail, Bail, Bale, Vaile, Vaill, Vale, Vail Last name origins & meanings:
- 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).
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so
named, from Old Norse vǫllr ‘field’, ‘meadow’.
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