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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Bälling) : patronymic from the Germanic personal name Baldo (see Bald), or a nickname from Middle High German, Middle Low German ballinc ‘outlaw’.
  • Danish : habitational name from a farm so named, from a derivative of Balle.

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