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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : habitational name from any of various places called Bålstad, Bålsta, or Balsta.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farmsteads so named, from an uncertain first element, most likely a personal name, + Old Norse staðir, plural of staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

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