What We Know About the Dial Surname

Dial is a surname that official counts record clearly.

• 10,997 Americans were listed as Dial in the 2010 census. That puts it among the top 5,000 US surnames. French birth records list 138 children named Dial between 1891 and 2000. Births under the name grew in the later decades.
• Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Dial, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

Heraldry and the Dial name

If a Dial family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows. Want more than a summary? See the Dial family name pack.