Balsam Family History
Balsam Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Balsam or Yiddish balzam ‘balm balsam’. German: occupational name for a seller of spices and perfumes from Latin balsamum ‘balsam aromatic resin’. German: variant of Balsel (see Baltzell ). English: habitational name from Balsham in Cambridgeshire named with an Old English personal name Bæll(i) + hām ‘homestead village’ or Balstone in Devon. English: variant of Balson .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022