First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Polish (Bieliński) and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from a place called Bielin in Volhynia or any of various other places in Poland such as Bielina, Bielino, or Bieliny.