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