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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a furrier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bel(lī)z ‘fur’, ‘pelt’ (see Beltz).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Belz in Ukraine.

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