Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • reduced form of Scottish or Irish McNall.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Nahl, a reduced form of Nagel.
  • Martin Nall (1677–1728) emigrated from England to Tappahonnock, VA, in 1699.

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