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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : probably an occupational name for a gauger or sealer of barrels, from an agent derivative of Middle High German beil ‘barrel inspection’. See also Beiler.
  • Altered spelling of Böhler (see Boehler).
  • English : variant spelling of Bailor.

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