The bala Surname
bala Name Meaning and History
- Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city): Parsi name, probably from Persian bala ‘high’, ‘exalted’.
- Indian (southern states): variant of Balan, particularly among speakers of Tamil and Malayalam who have migrated away from their home state. In India it is only a given name, but it has come to be used as a family name among South Indians in the U.S.
- Polish: from a reduced form of the personal name Baltazar.
- Hungarian: from a pet form of the personal name Balázs, a vernacular form of Blasius.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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