Balfour Family History
Balfour Name Meaning
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. WN.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Balfour Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Balfour families
 18 - 34  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Balfour families
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67 - 132 23 - 66 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Balfour families
|
174 - 345 59 - 173 |
1 - 58 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Balfour Family Origin
Balfour Immigration Information
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Balfour Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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