Regal

Family name origins & meanings

• Spanish : topographic name for someone who lived by a pool formed by a stream.
• southern French (Occitan) : nickname from the old Béarn dialect term régal ‘royal’. Compare Ray 1.
• Southern French (Occitan) : topographic name for someone who lived near a stream, from a derivative of rega (masculine form rec) ‘stream’, ‘torrent’.