Last name: VAL

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VAL : This last name is indexed 182,842 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

VAL : 1: Spanish: variant of Valle from val a variant of valle ‘valley’. Compare Delval.2: Galician and Portuguese: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley val (compare 3 below). Compare also Doval.3: French and Haitian: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley (Old) French val (originally feminine later masculine; compare Vallee) from Latin vallis (feminine). Compare Duval and Laval.

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