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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Bayliss.
  • English : from the genitive case of Middle English bail(e) ‘bailey’, ‘outer wall of a castle’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived beside a castle. Compare Bail and Bailey.

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