Family name origins & meanings
- French : perhaps related to joyau ‘jewelry’.
- A Joyal or Joyel from the Périgord region of France is recorded in 1676 Trois Rivières, Quebec, with the secondary surname <xref>Bergerac</xref>. Another, also called Saint-Quentin, is documented in Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec, in 1716.