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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the personal name Boltz, a reduced form of Baldwin.
  • South German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of bolts for crossbows or for a bowman, or a nickname for a tall stiff man, from Middle High German boltz ‘crossbow bolt’.

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