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balla Name Meaning and History

  1. Hungarian: from a short form of Ballabás, variant of the personal name Barnabás (see Barnaby).
  2. Italian: from balla, which in its earliest sense meant ‘dance’ but from the 14th century was used to denote ‘goods packed for transport’, ‘bale’, ‘bundle (of merchandise)’ and was hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a carrier.

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Distribution of balla Families in the US in 1920
Number of balla families
 15-28
 6-14
 1-5
 0
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