Popularity of the last name by country
Switzerland
All countries
- United Kingdom (1,093,952)
- United States (652,792)
- New Zealand (58,370)
- Sweden (53,340)
- Australia (48,245)
- Ireland (39,060)
- France (29,416)
- Netherlands (19,067)
- Canada (18,577)
- Unknown country (17,780)
- Germany (16,615)
- Finland (6,147)
- Denmark (5,546)
- Austria (3,557)
- Switzerland (3,541)
- Norway (2,036)
- Belgium (1,783)
- Italy (1,532)
- Colombia (1,457)
- India (1,324)
- Spain (802)
- Hungary (797)
- Indonesia (673)
- Jamaica (592)
- Romania (592)
- Mexico (579)
- Luxembourg (483)
- South Africa (455)
- China (434)
- Poland (397)
- Russian Federation (382)
- Egypt (278)
- Peru (278)
- Latvia (263)
- Brazil (236)
- Turkey (235)
- Greece (234)
- Estonia (218)
- Argentina (200)
- Algeria (189)
Origine of last name
HALL : 1: English Scottish Irish German Norwegian and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall) Middle High German halle Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence) hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century and according to MacLysaght has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.2: Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence) or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).3: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀 see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/He">He</a> 1 and 2.
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