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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Balbh meaning ‘stammering’, ‘dumb’, itself probably a translation of a Norman family name of similar meaning, for example Baube ‘stammering’, from Latin balbus, itself used as a Roman family name.

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