Baldyga
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Frequency: (259)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Polish (Bałdyga): unflattering nickname from dialect bałdyga ‘oaf’, ‘large and clumsy or lazy man’.
GIVEN NAMES: Polish 11%. Bogumil, Casimir, Eugeniusz, Faustyn, Jaroslaw, Jozef, Mieczyslaw, Tadeusz, Wieslaw.
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