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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Swiss German (also Böller) : habitational name for someone from any of several places called Boll (see Boll).
  • South German and Swiss German : nickname for a noisy blustering person, from Middle High German bollen ‘to bluster’.
  • Hungarian (Böllér) : occupational name for a butcher’s apprentice, böllér.

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