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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : patronymic from Bohl 1.
  • German : habitational name from a place in Westphalia named Bohlen.
  • German (Böhlen) : habitational name from any of several places in Saxony named Böhlen.
  • Swedish (Bohlén) : ornamental name from Bohl 1 + the suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘descendant of’.

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