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Balk

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of a Slavic equivalent of the personal name Valentinus.
  • Dutch : from balk ‘timber’, ‘beam’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter or a nickname for a big man.

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