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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Bellew.
  • English : metonymic occupational name for a bellows maker or someone who pumped the bellows, for example for a blacksmith or for a church organ, from Middle English beli. Until the early 15th century the term was normally used in the singular.
  • Variant spelling of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) and Russian Beloff.

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