Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname for someone with close-cropped hair or a large head, Middle English bolling ‘pollard’, or for a heavy drinker, from Middle English bolling ‘excessive drinking’.
- German (Bölling) : from a pet form of a personal name formed with Germanic bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’ (see Baldwin).
- Swedish : either an ornamental name composed of Boll + the suffix -ing ‘belonging to’, or possibly a habitational name from a place named Bolling(e).