Vales

Family name origins & meanings

• Catalan (Valès) : respelling of Catalan Vallès (see Valles).
• Galician : habitational name from any of the places called Vales in Galicia, or topographic name from the plural of Galician val ‘valley’.
• Czech (Valeš) : from a pet form of the personal name Valentin (see Valentine).