Belfrage

English

Etymology

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

Belfrage (plural Belfrages)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Belfrage is the 264570^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 69 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Belfrage”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130.