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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Bolte.
  • German : habitational name from short form of a compound place name such as Boltenhagen, of which there are six examples in Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
  • Swedish (Boltén) : from Bolt + the ornamental suffix -én.

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