Last name: BALE
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BALE : This last name is indexed 50,990 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BALE : 1: English: topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle Middle English bailli baile from Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’ (see Bailey 3).2: Breton (Balé): variant of Balay.3: French: unexplained.4: Americanized form of German Boehl or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
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