Meaning and Origin of: Vale

Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : From the valley

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English, French, Latin : From the valley

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.
  • Galician and Aragonese : topographic name from val ‘valley’, or habitational name from any of the places named with this word.