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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a variant of Bullen.
  • Scottish : habitational name from any of various minor places of this name, perhaps from an unrecorded Scottish Gaelic cognate of Irish bullán, a term denoting a round spring or a hollow in a rock containing rainwater.

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