Last name origins & meanings:
- Ukrainian, Belorussian, Romanian, and Jewish (eastern
Ashkenazic): from a Russian word meaning ‘hawk’, probably usually
applied as a descriptive nickname, although it could also be an
occupational name for a falconer. In Ukrainian and Belorussian
balaban also means ‘chatterer’. In patronymic form
(Balabanov) it is also found as a Russian and Bulgarian
surname.
- Greek: nickname for a big man, from Turkish
balaban ‘tame bear’, or a shortened form of some other family
name derived from this word, such as Balabanis,
Balabanidis, Balabanos, or Balabanopoulos.
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