Last name origins & meanings:
- English and Scottish: occupational name for a seller of spices
and perfumes, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French
basme, balme, ba(u)me ‘balm’, ‘ointment’ (Latin
balsamum ‘aromatic resin’).
- South German and Swiss
German: habitational name from any of the places in Switzerland and
Baden called Balm, which almost certainly get their names from a
Celtic word meaning ‘cave’.
- German: from the Germanic personal
name Baldemar, composed of the elements bald ‘bold’ +
mar ‘famous’.
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