Bahl Family History
- Bahl Name Meaning
- Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Khatri) and Sikh name, probably from Sanskrit bahala ‘strong’, based on the name of a clan in the Khatri community. North German: from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’. Eastern German: from Bahl, a Sorbian form of the personal name Valentinus (see Valentine).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 52,383 Historical Documents with Bahl on Ancestry
- 21,503 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,540 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,734 Military Records
- 1,893 Immigration Records
- 19,713 Member Trees
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Number of Bahl families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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