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Origine of last name

HALE : 1: English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land from Old English and Middle English hale dative of h(e)alh ‘nook hollow’ or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire Hampshire Lancashire Lincolnshire Holme Hale (Norfolk) Hale Street (Kent) and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river typically one deposited in a bend. See <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Haugh">Haugh</a>. In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form which would originally have been preceded by a preposition e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.2: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/McHale">McHale</a>).3: Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Halle">Halle</a>.4: Americanized form of Norwegian <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Hole">Hole</a>.

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