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Ballantyne
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Origin Of The Surname Ballantyne
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Meaning Of The Surname Ballantyne
From the Town with the County Farm
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Interesting
Facts About
Ballantyne
Ballantyne is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled in Scotland. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old Gaelic ‘baile deadhain’ which means ‘farm of the county’. Places with this name would originally have had a large farm that provided for a few towns. |
Ballantyne Statistics
Ballantyne is the number 1196 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,253 share the surname Ballantyne in the UK.
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