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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : patronymic from the personal name Bel(e) (see Beal 1) or a metronymic from a short form of the female personal name Isabel (see Isbell).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Beyle (see Belin) + German Sohn ‘son’.

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