Balog Family History
Balog Name Meaning
Hungarian: nickname for a left-handed or clumsy person a variant of Balogh . This form of the surname is also found in Romania; compare below. Rusyn Slovak Croatian Serbian and Slovenian: nickname of Hungarian origin (see Balogh compare 1 above). This surname is very rare in Slovenia (compare below). Compare also Baloga . Slovenian: nickname from balog ‘whitish ox’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022