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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