Last name: ROYAL
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ROYAL : This last name is indexed 74,130 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ROYAL : 1: English: habitational name from Royle in Burnley (Lancashire) so named from Old English rā ‘roe deer’ + hyll ‘hill’. The surname may have been confused with Rial.2: Americanized form of German Reul or Reule.3: Possibly also an Americanized form of Spanish and Portuguese Real.
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