Origin
Valle : 1: Spanish and Italian: topographic name from valle ‘valley’ (from Latin vallis) or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word. This surname is also found in Corsica and southern France. Compare Spanish Del Valle and De Valle Italian Lavalle 1.2: French (Vallé): variant of Vallée ‘valley’ (see Vallee).3: Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named from Old Norse vǫllr ‘field meadow’. Compare Walle.
Avallone : Italian (southern): topographic name for someone who lived in a deep valley from vallone ‘deep valley gorge’ (augmentative of valle ‘valley’) with initial a probably acquired by reinterpretation of da vallone ‘from or at (the) gorge’ as d'avallone.
Balcazar : Spanish: topographic name derived from alcázar ‘castle’ and bal a variant of valle ‘valley’ or perhaps bello ‘beautiful’.
Balles : 1: Catalan: habitational name from El Vallès a district in Barcelona province.2: Spanish: habitational name from any of the places called Valles from the plural of valle ‘valley’.3: German: from a variant of Baldes a short form of the personal name Balthasar (see Baltazar).4: English: variant of Balls.
Cerise : 1: Italian: habitational name from La Cerise or Torrent-La Cerise placenames in Valle d'Aosta from French cerise ‘cherry’ (see 2 below).2: French: from cerise ‘cherry’ (from Latin cerasus) applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold cherries.
Lavalle : 1: Italian (also La Valle): topographic name from valle ‘valley’ (from Latin vallis) or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word. Compare Valle.2: French (Lavallé): variant of Lavallée ‘the valley’ (see Lavallee) and in North America (also) an altered form of this.
Val : 1: Spanish: variant of Valle from val a variant of valle ‘valley’. Compare Delval.2: Galician and Portuguese: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley val (compare 3 below). Compare also Doval.3: French and Haitian: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley (Old) French val (originally feminine later masculine; compare Vallee) from Latin vallis (feminine). Compare Duval and Laval.
Valderas : Spanish: habitational name from any of the three places so called especially one in León probably named with valle valley and the plural of era ‘threshing floor’. Compare Balderas and Balderaz.
Vale : 1: English: of Norman origin a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(in the) vale or valley’ (Middle English val(e) valle Old French val ‘valley’) or a habitational name for someone who came from one of the French places called with this word such as Le Val (Sarthe) or any number of places in and around Normandy called Vaux. Compare Vause.2: Irish: from Mac Pháil ‘son of Paul’.3: Irish: variant of Veale.4: Galician: topographic name from val ‘valley’ or a habitational name from any of the places so called in Galicia and Asturias. Compare Dovale.
Vallas : Greek: nickname or metonymic occupational name from Albanian valle ‘dance’ or else a topographic name from Aromanian vali ‘valley’.
Valleau : French: derivative of French Vallé (see Valle) or Vallée ‘valley’ (see Vallee).
Vallecillo : Spanish: habitational name from Vallecillo in León or El Valecillo in Teruel a diminutive of Spanish valle ‘valley’.
Vallejo : Spanish: habitational name from any of various places in Burgos León and Cantabria named Vallejo from a diminutive of valle ‘valley’. Compare Ballejo.
Valles : 1: Catalan (Vallès): habitational name from a region of Catalonia named with vallès ‘of or relating to the valley’ (from Latin vallensis an adjectival derivative of vallis ‘valley’).2: Spanish: habitational name from any of the places called (Los) Valles from valles plural of valle ‘valley’.
Vallese : Italian: topographic name from an adjectival form of valle ‘valley’ or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called with this word.
Vallin : 1: Asturian-Leonese (Vallín): habitational name from any of the places in Asturias (Spain) named Vallín from a diminutive of valle ‘valley’. Compare Ballin.2: Swedish: topographic or ornamental name from vall ‘grassy bank pasture’ (see Wall) or the root of Latin vallis ‘valley’ (representing Swedish dal) + the adjectival suffix -in a derivative of Latin -in(i)us ‘relating to’. The original humanistic form of the surname Vallinus is no longer found in Sweden. Compare Wallin.3: French: topographic name for someone who lived in a small valley from a diminutive of Old French val ‘valley’ (see Val) or a habitational name from a minor place so named in Isère.
Wall : 1: English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stone-built wall e.g. one used to fortify a town or to keep back the encroachment of the sea (Middle English wall ‘wall’ Old English wall weall from Latin vallum ‘rampart palisade’) or a habitational name from a place so named such as Wall (Staffordshire).2: English (West Midlands): topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream northern Middle English wall(e) (Old English (Mercian) wæll(a); compare Well).3: Irish (of Norman origin): Anglicized form of de Valle (Gaelicized form de Bhál) the name of a Norman family established in Munster and Connacht.4: German: topographic name for someone who lived by a defensive wall Middle High German wal.5: German: variant of Wahl 2.6: German: from a short form of the personal name Walther.7: Swedish: ornamental name from a variant of the element vall ‘grassy bank pasture’ or in some cases a habitational name from a place called with this element.
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
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