Penhale Family History
Penhale Name Meaning
from any of more than two dozen places called Penhale in Cornwall or from places of similar name in Wales such as Pennal (Merioneths) or from Penheale in Egloskerry (Cornwall). The Cornish places named Penhale derive from Middle Cornish *pen hal ‘moor's head marsh's head’ (pen ‘head top end; promontory’ hal ‘moor marsh’); Pennal (Merioneths) has the same meaning. Penheale derives from Middle Cornish pen + hel ‘hall’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016