Bale Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

It is easy to miss Bale in an index if you only search for Bales. Its meaning, shared with Bales, is “From Bale”.

• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Names that sound alike, such as Balle, Baile and Bailey, are easily confused in old records.
• 2,843 Americans were listed as Bale in the 2010 census. From 1891 to 2000, 299 births in France were registered under Bale.
• Without the “s” of Bales, Bale is a simpler written form of the same name.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Bales and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Bale surname pack.