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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Indian (Panjab): Sikh name based on the name of a Jat tribe, from Sanskrit bala ‘strength’.
  2. Polish: from a reduced form of the personal name Baltazar.
  3. French: from a short form of a personal name of Germanic origin formed with bald ‘bold’ as the first element.