Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch (Van der Waal) : habitational name from any of various places called Waal, or topographic name from Middle Dutch wal ‘pool, eddy, or mudflat behind a dike (resulting from a breach in the dike)’.
- Dutch (Van der Waal) : topographic name for someone living by a city wall, a variant of Vanderwal 2.
- Dutch (Van der Waal) : topographic name for someone who lived by the river Waal, a distributary of the Rhine.