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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Dutch: from a reduced form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with the element bald (see Bald).
  2. English: variant spelling of Ball 1.
  3. Danish: habitational name from a farmstead named Balle, meaning ‘slope’, ‘hill’.
  4. Catalan: respelling of Batlle, status name for a steward or official, from Catalan batlle.