Last name: BALLON

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BALLON : This last name is indexed 74,579 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

BALLON : 1: Spanish and Galician: unexplained.2: French and English (Middlesex): from the Old French personal name Ballon Ballun derived from the oblique stem of ancient Germanic Ballo a short form of compound names based on the element bal presumably meaning ‘torment spitefulness’ (see Ballard).3: French and English (Middlesex): from Old French balon ‘little ball’ or ‘package’ perhaps a nickname for a little man of rotund form or for someone whose occupation was to pack.4: Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Balon.

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