Last name origins & meanings:
- German and Danish: habitational name for someone from a place
so named near Neubrandenburg; the -in ending suggests Slavic
origin.
- French: metonymic occupational name for a maker
of straw mattresses, Old French ballin.
- Jewish
(Ashkenazic): variant of Balin.
- Asturian-Leonese: habitational name from any of the places in Asturies named Vallín,
from a diminutive of valle ‘valley’.
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