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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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