Balma
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Frequency: (104)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Italian: perhaps a topographic name from the dialect word balma ‘grotto’, ‘cave’, ‘jutting rock’.
2. Dutch: unexplained.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 6%. Giorgio, Martino.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
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