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balon Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Old French balon ‘bundle’, ‘roll’, ‘pack’, hence a nickname for a small, rotund man or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a carrier of goods and merchandise.
  2. French (Bâlon): generally regarded as a habitational name from Baalons in the Ardennes, it may however simply be from balon ‘ball’, ‘roll’ (see 1) or a derivative of Bal.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of balon Families in the US in 1920
Number of balon families
 11-19
 4-10		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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