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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Bülter) : topographic name for someone who lived on a low hill or an area of raised ground, from Middle Low German bult(e), bülte ‘hump’, ‘knoll’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

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