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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Nottinghamshire) : from Middle English boller (from Old English bolla ‘bowl’, ‘drinking vessel’ + the agent suffix -er), an occupational name for a maker or seller of bowls. Medieval bowls were made of wood as well as of earthenware.

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