Family name origins & meanings
- French : from a pet form of the personal name Paul.
- Irish (Counties Armagh and Down) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Póilín, patronymic from a personal name formed from a pet form of Pól (Paul).
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : regional name for someone from Poland, from a slavicized form of German Polen ‘Poland’.
- Variant of German Bolling.