Family name origins & meanings
- English (Sussex, Essex, and Kent) : unexplained. Reaney derives it from Vynall’s Farm in Pebmarsh in Essex, but it seems more likely that the surname gave rise to the farm name.
- Galician and Spanish (Viñal) : habitational name from any of six places in Galicia named Viñal, from a derivative of viña ‘vineyard’.
- in some cases also a Castilianized spelling of Catalan Vinyal, of the same derivation as Spanish Viñal.