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2007-03-08 09:55:47 · 2 answers · asked by Gateway 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Balfe is a strong Celtic name, either Irish or Scottish. It's Gaelic spelling is Balbh, which means dumb or quiet. Rogers is English.
2007-03-08 18:20:00 · answer #1 · answered by whisky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rogers
English: patronymic from the personal name Roger.
Roger
Scottish, English, North German, French, and Catalan: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hrod ‘renown’ +gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’, which was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Rog(i)er. The cognate Old Norse Hróðgeirr was a reinforcing influence in Normandy.
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ruaidhrà (see Rorie).
Rorie
Scottish and Irish (County Tyrone): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ruaidhrà ‘son of Rory’
Balfe
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Balbh meaning ‘stammering’, ‘dumb’, itself probably a translation of a Norman family name of similar meaning, for example Baube ‘stammering’, from Latin balbus, itself used as a Roman family name.
2007-03-09 17:11:21 · answer #2 · answered by Jen 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋