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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Catalan: habitational name from El Vallès, a Catalan district in Barcelona province, Catalonia.
  2. Spanish: habitational name from one of the places named Valles, from the plural of valle ‘valley’.
  3. German: from a variant of Baldes, a short form of the personal name Balthasar (see Baltazar).
  4. Variant spelling of English Balls.