The balfour Surname
balfour Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from any of several places in eastern
Scotland named with Gaelic bail(e) ‘village’, ‘farm’, ‘house’ +
pùir, genitive case of pór ‘pasture’, ‘grass’
(lenited to phùir in certain contexts). The second element
is akin to Welsh pawr ‘pasture’. The principal British family
bearing this name derives it from lands in the parish of Markinch,
Fife. According to the traditional pronunciation, the accent falls on
the second syllable, but these days it is found more commonly on the
first.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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