Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and North German : metonymic occupational name for a leather belt or strap maker, from Middle English belt(e), Middle Low German balt.
  • German : from a short form of the Germanic personal name Baldher (see Belter).
  • North German : habitational name from a place called Beelte (see Belter 2).

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