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hall Name Meaning and History

English, Scottish, Irish, German, and Scandinavian: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse holl 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 places named with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. The English name has been established in Ireland since the Middle Ages, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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hall Family Facts

Distribution of hall Families in the US in 1920
Number of hall families
 2578-5154
 860-2577		 1-859
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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