Släkthistoria för Meale
Meale Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English mele ‘meal ground cereal’ perhaps for a maker or seller of meal. Compare Mealmaker and Millman. from Middle English mele ‘sand-hill’ (Old Scandinavian melr) as found in such place-names as North Meols (Lancs) Ravensmeols in Formby (Lancs) which is recorded as Mele in 1086 and Great Meols (Cheshire). Compare Meil. In Norfolk and Lancs the name might alternatively be a variant of Male in one of its senses.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
