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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: variant of Bellew.
  2. English: metonymic occupational name for a bellows maker or someone who pumped the bellows, for example for a blacksmith or for a church organ, from Middle English beli. Until the early 15th century the term was normally used in the singular.
  3. Variant spelling of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) and Russian Beloff.