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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : reduced form of the personal name Balthasar (see Baltazar).
  • shortened form of Lithuanian Balseris, a patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Baltazaras (see Baltazar).
  • Jewish : habitational name for someone from Bolsi, a place in Ukraine.

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