Teal

See also: teal, TEAl, and TEAL

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Teale, Teall, Teel, Teele

Etymology

From teal, a nickname given to someone considered to resemble this duck.

Proper noun

Teal (countable and uncountable, plural Teals)

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
2. A ghost town in Cole County, Missouri, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Teal is the 3976^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8937 individuals. Teal is most common among White (78.43%) and Black/African American (15.63%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Teal”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, et al, et al., late, leat, tael, tale, tela