Belfrage
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Two main origins:
- Scottish habitational surname from an island in the Severn, from Old English befer (“beaver”) + īeġ (“island”).
- Borrowed from Swedish Belfrage.
Proper noun
[edit]Belfrage (plural Belfrages)
- A surname.
Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Belfrage is the 264570th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 69 individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Belfrage”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130.