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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Bayliss.
  • Hungarian and Croatian (Bališ) : from the personal name Bali, a pet form of Baltazar or Balint.
  • Perhaps also Greek : occupational status name from Turkish balija ‘workman’, ‘low-ranking man’.

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