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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a bolter or sifter of flour, from Middle English bo(u)lt ‘to sift’ (Old French buleter, of Germanic origin).
  • English : occupational name for a maker of bolts or bars, from an agent derivative of Middle English bolt (see Bolt).
  • German : habitational name for someone from a lost place named Bolt. It is the name of a large family from Hechingen, Württemberg.
  • German (also Bölter) : occupational name for a maker of wooden bolts for crossbows, Middle High German bolter.

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