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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places in northeastern Germany named Bellin.
  • French : variant spelling of Belin.
  • Welsh : Americanized form of Belyn, from the personal name of a shadowy Welsh hero who died in 627.

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