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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’.
  • North German : habitational name from either of two places called Bohl, near Düren and Cologne.
  • North German : variant of Bohle.
  • Swedish : of German origin.

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