Real Family History
Real Name Meaning
Spanish Catalan Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of numerous places called Real; those in Galicia (Spain) and Portugal being named from real ‘royal’ or as variant of Rial while those in southern Spain and Catalonia are named in part from real meaning ‘encampment rural property’ (Arabic raḥāl ‘farmhouse cabin’). Compare Del Real . Spanish; French (Réal): from Spanish and Old French real ‘royal’ hence a nickname for someone who behaved in a regal manner or an occupational name for someone in the service of the king or a topographic name for someone who lived on a land belonging to the king. As a French name it may also be a habitational name from Réal (Pyrénées-Orientales) a place called for having been part of a royal domain (compare Reaux ). Possibly an altered form of German Riehl or Rühl see Ruehl . English: variant of Ryall or Rail . Irish: from Ó Raghaill see Rawl .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022