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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : From the valley

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English, French, Latin : From the valley

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Vale

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.
  • Galician and Aragonese : topographic name from val ‘valley’, or habitational name from any of the places named with this word.

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