Dales Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): variant of Dale with post-medieval excrescent -s. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname for a needy person from Hebrew dalus ‘poverty’.
Dale Name Meaning
English: from Middle English dal dale daile ‘dale valley’ (Old English dæl reinforced in northern England by the cognate Old Norse dalr) a topographic name for someone who lived in a valley or a habitational name from any of numerous minor places called with this word such as Dale in Cumbria and Yorkshire. Norwegian: habitational name from a common farm named from Old Norse dali the dative case of dalr ‘valley’. Americanized form of German Diehl . Americanized form of Swedish Norwegian or German Dahl . Dutch: variant without the preposition van ‘from’ of Van Dale .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hale, Gale, Sale, Vale, Dole, Wale, Dane, Dal, Dahle, Kale
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts