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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : elaborated derivative of the Germanic personal name Baldo (see Bold 4).
  • German : topographic name for a man who lived on a rounded hill, from Middle High German boll ‘rounded hill’ + man ‘man’, or a habitational name from any of several places called Boll (see Boll).

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