Last name origins & meanings:
- Greek: nickname for someone who was short and fat, from
bal(l)a ‘ball’, from Italian balla ‘ball’, ‘bullet’,
‘cannonball’.
- Syrian and Jewish (from Syria): unexplained.
- German: variant of Baldas, from a reduced form of the
personal name Baltazar.
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