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Origin and popularity of the name BALLAM

Origin

Ballam : English (Dorset): variant of Balaam (assimilated by folk etymology to the Biblical personal name Balaam see Numbers 23–24) which is a habitational name from Baylham in Suffolk or a Norman surname derived from Ballon in Le Mans Sarthe France (compare Ballon). The surname may also be a variant of English Balham perhaps from Balham in Streatham Surrey named with Old English bealg ‘smooth’ or ‘round’ + hamm ‘water meadow land hemmed in by water’.

Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press

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Geographic distribution of the 603 individuals with the name BALLAM on Geneanet.

 

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