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Last name origins & meanings:

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