 The spelling used today first cropped up in the historical record as early as 1588.The tag “im Tal”, German for “in the dale” was added in the earlier half of the 19th century to distinguish the village from the other place in the same district with the same name.A village called "Huntwilre", which is named in a document from the latter half of the 14th century, might have lain within what are now Oberweiler im Tal's limits.