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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch bulte ‘knoll’, ‘hump’ + huis ‘house’, hence either a topographic name from a house on a low hill surrounded by marshland or a house inhabited by a hunchback (especially in the Groningen area).

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