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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a derivative of Old French beli, beslif ‘diagonal’, which Morlet suggests may have been a nickname for a drunkard, with reference to his staggering walk.
  • The name is recorded in Quebec in the mid 18th century.

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