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Bol DutchFrom Dutch
bol "ball, sphere" or "bun, roll, round piece of bread or pastry", possibly an occupational name for a baker, a habitational name for someone who lived by a sign depicting a ball or globe, or a nickname for a bald man, or perhaps a ball player.
Bol DutchDerived from the given name
Baldo, a short form of names beginning with the element
bald "bold, brave”.
Bolaji NigerianThis surname is very common in Nigeria. Possibly taken from a word in one of the Nigerian tribes languages.
Bolaño SpanishIs a Hispanic surname derived from the spanish word for "stone cannonball" or "stoneshot".
Bolar SpanishTopographic name for someone who lived on a patch of soil of a particular type known as tierra bolar.
Bolas Medieval EnglishEnglish: habitational name from Great Bolas in Shropshire, named in Old English with an unidentified first element (possibly an unattested word bogel meaning ‘bend in a river’) + wæsse ‘land beside a river liable to flood’.
Bold EnglishFrom a nickname for a person willing to take risks, derived from Middle English
bolde "daring, courageous", from Old English
beald.
Bold EnglishDenoted a person who lived or worked in the main house or a habitational name for places in England so-called or similar, all derived from Middle English
bold "habitation, building", from Old English
bold.
Bolding DanishHabitational name from a place so named in Jutland.
Boldy ScottishThis is a name for someone who lived in Peeblesshire.
Bolewski PolishComes from the given name
Bolesław, also a name for a person who comes from
Bolewice or other places starting with
-Bolew in Poland.
Boleyn EnglishFranciscanized form of
Bullens, a Dutch surname meaning "son of Baldo" (meaning "strong").
Bolingoli Central African, LingalaMeans "shining" in Lingala. This surname is borne by Belgian soccer player Romelu Lukaku Bolingoli (1993-), more commonly known as Romelu Lukaku. Another famous bearer is Romelu's cousin Boli Bolingoli (1995-), also a noted soccer player.
Bolitho CornishHabitational name for someone originally from the locality of Bolitho in western Cornwall, derived from Old Cornish
bod or
bos meaning "dwelling" combined with an unknown personal name.
Bolkiah Malay (Rare)Meaning uncertain. It may be derived from Arabic وَاقِيَة
(wāqiya) meaning "protector, preserver", or it may be an alteration of the Hadhrami surname بلفقيه
(Balfaqih) from Arabic الفَقِيه
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Bolkonskiy m Russian, LiteratureBolkonsky is the last name of Princess Marya Bolkonskaya from "War and Peace" by Lev Tolstoy. It is a real last name outside of literature as well.
Bolland French, German, EnglishFrom the Ancient Germanic name
Bolland. Alternatively it derive from the place name
Bowland from the Old English
boga meaning "bow" and
land meaning "land".
Bollard FrenchFrom a personal name composed of the Germanic elements boll "friend", "brother" +
hard "hardy", "strong".
Bollard English, IrishAccording to MacLysaght, this surname of Dutch origin which was taken to Ireland early in the 18th century.
Bolle ItalianMeans "bubbles" in Italian, derived from the singular
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Bolling English, Germannickname for someone with close-cropped hair or a large head, Middle English bolling 'pollard', or for a heavy drinker, from Middle English bolling 'excessive drinking'. German (Bölling): from a personal name
Baldwin Bollinger German (Swiss)Habitational name for someone from any of three places called Bollingen, in Schwyz, Württemberg, and Oldenburg, or from Bohlingen near Lake Constance (which is pronounced and was formerly written as Bollingen).
Bolloré BretonBolloré derives from bod which means bush and lore which means laurel in Breton
Bölöni HungarianFrom the place name
Bölön, a village located in what is now Covasna County in Romania. This surname is used mainly among the Székelys.
Bolshakov m RussianFrom old Russian term
большак (bolshak), a colloquial word meaning "very long road", ultimately from
больше (bolshe) "more, large, great". Denoted to person who lived by long road or travelled frequently on one.
Bolsonaro Portuguese (Brazilian)Brazilian Portuguese cognate of
Bolzonaro; in the case of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (1955-), his Italian paternal great-grandfather had the spelling changed from
Bolzonaro upon emigrating to Brazil in the late 19th century.
Bolt EnglishEither: an occupational name for an archer or a maker of bolts, or a nickname for a stocky or upright person, derived from Middle English
bolt "bolt, crossbow bolt". A famous bearer of the name is Jamaican athletic sprinter Usain Bolt (1986-), widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time.
Boltz GermanMay designate a creator of bolts for crossbows or bowmen. May also be a short form of
Baldwin.
Bolyak UkrainianMeans "one who is in pain", derived from
біль (bil'), meaning "pain, hurt".
Bolzonaro ItalianOccupational name for a person who operated a battering ram, derived from Italian
bolzone literally meaning "battering ram".
Boman SwedishCombination of Swedish
bo (noun) "nest, farm, dwelling" and
man "man".
Bombadil LiteratureIn J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", the surname of Tom Bombadil, an enigmatic character not present in Peter Jackson's movie adaptation.
Bompadre ItalianFrom a medieval given name Bonuspater, meaning "good father", given in hopes that the "eternal father (god)" would look kindly on the child. Was often given to abandoned infants as a surname.
Bon French, HungarianAs a French surname, it is derived from Old French
bon meaning "good", or occasionally from the Latin given name
Bonus (borne by a minor 3rd-century Christian saint martyred at Rome with eleven companions under the Emperor Vespasian... [
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Bona Catalan, SpanishCatalan and Spanish surname derived from the Catalan word bona meaning good
Bonacci Italian"Bona" comes from the Italian for good, "Buona" and "cci" is ancient Latin form for "man." Thus, "the good man." A derivation of FiBonacci, or "son of Bonacci." Was the name of the famous mathematician, Leondardo de Pisa: Leonardo of Pisa is now known as Fibonacci short for filius Bonacci... [
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Bonaduce ItalianFrom the Latin phrase
bona duce fortuna, "with good luck as your guide".
Bonal FrenchThis is a surname formed from the Latin root "bonus" (= good) and the Germanic "wald" (waldan = govern). Bonwald meaning good governor.
Bonamici ItalianMeans "good friend", originating as a nickname or from a given name of the same meaning.
Bonanno ItalianFrom the medieval personal name
Bonanno, an omen name meaning "good year". Mainly found throughout southern Italy.
Bonar Scottish, Northern IrishFrom a medieval nickname for a courteous or good-looking person (from Middle English
boner "gentle, courteous, handsome"). A notable bearer of the surname was Canadian-born British Conservative politician Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), prime minister 1922-23.
Bonar IrishA "translation" of Irish Gaelic
Ó Cnáimhsighe "descendant of
Cnáimhseach", a nickname meaning literally "midwife" and ostensibly a derivative of Gaelic
cnámh "bone".
Bonasera SicilianDerived from the expression
bona sera "good evening". This name was applied as a nickname either for someone who made frequent use of this salutation or as a personal name bestowed on a child as an expression of gratitude in the sense "it was a good evening when you were born".
Bonatti ItalianComes from the pesonal name '
Bona' which is derived from Latin '
bonus', which means
'great'.
Bonba Basque, SpanishFrom Basque
bonba meaning "bomb", (Latin
bombus), hence probably a nickname for someone with an explosive temperament, or a metonymic occupational name for an artilleryman.
Bondia CatalanBondia is a Catalan surname. It means 'good day' or 'good morning'.
Bonera ItalianDerived from the medieval Italian given name
Bonora or
Buonora meaning "good hour" or "finally", often given to children whose birth was long-awaited or celebrated, or who were born early in the morning... [
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Bonfiglio ItalianFrom the given name
Bonfiglio an omen or well-wishing name meaning "good son" from
bono "good" and
figlio "child, son"... [
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Bongiorno ItalianItalian from the medieval personal name
Bongiorno (composed of
bono ‘good’ +
giorno ‘day’), bestowed on a child as an expression of the parents’ satisfaction at the birth (‘it was a good day when you were born’).
Bongiovanni ItalianComes from the personal name
Giovanni composed of the elements
bon ‘good’ +
Giovanni, Italian equivalent of John
Boniadi Persian (Rare)Probably indicated a person from the Iranian village of Boniad, possibly derived from Persian بنیاد
(bonyad) meaning "foundation, base". A notable bearer is Iranian-English actress
Nazanin Boniadi (1980-).
Bonica ItalianPossibly derived from a feminine personal name derived from Latin
bonus "good".
Bonkobara JapaneseFrom 盆 (
bon) meaning "tray, bowl, basin, lantern festival", combined with 子 (
ko, shi) meaning "child, sign of the rat", and 原 (
hara) meaning "field, plain".
Bońkowski m PolishHabitational name for a person from the village of Bońki.
Bonnar IrishTranslation of the Gaelic "O'Cnaimhsighe", descendant of Cnaimhseach, a byname meaning "Midwife
Bonnefoy FrenchThe name is derived from the French words
bonne, meaning good, and
foi meaning faith.
Bonnemaison FrenchLiterally means "good house", derived from French
bonne "good" and French
maison "house". As such, this surname is most likely a locational surname, in that it originally either referred to someone who lived in a good house (probably more like a mansion) or to someone who was born in (or lived in) the place Bonnemaison, which is nowadays located in the Calvados department of France... [
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Bonnevier SwedishLikely brought to Sweden by Walloon immigrants in the 16th century.
Bonnin FrenchDerived from a diminutive of
Bon, it is also found in the island of Mallorca and Turin, Italy.
Bonsall English (British)This is a locational name which originally derived from the village of Bonsall, near Matlock in Derbyshire. The name is Norse-Viking, pre 10th Century and translates as 'Beorns-Halh' - with 'Beorn' being a personal name meaning 'Hero' and 'Halh' a piece of cultivated land - a farm.
Bonsor FrenchBonsor is from French origin mean good day
Bon soir Bontemps FrenchDerived from Old French
bon temps meaning "good time". One popular bearer of the name is the American poet and novelist Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973).
Bontrager GermanComing from the Old German, Bonträger or Bornträger, meaning 'water carrier'.
Bonuš CzechFrom a pet form of the personal name Bonifác, Czech form of Bonifacio.
Boo KoreanFrom Sino-Korean 富 (Bu) meaning "Fortune".
Bookbinder EnglishOccupational name for someone who binds pages to make a book, derived from Middle English
bokebynder.
Booke AmericanAmerican variant of the German name
Buche meaning "beech" in reference to the beech tree. Notable bearer is the actor
Sorrell Booke (1930-1994).
Bookman German (East Prussian)Bookman, as a surname, derives from East Purssian origin. It is the American version of “Buchmann” with “Buch” meaning book in German, and “Mann” meaning man, creating the Americanized German surname Bookman.
Bookwalter English (American)German: variant of Buchwalder, a habitational name for someone from any of various places called Buchwald or Buchwalde in Saxony and Pomerania, meaning 'beech forest'. The surname Buchwalter is very rare in Germany.... [
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Bool EnglishThis surname derives from the Old English pre 7th Century
bula, or the Medieval English
bulle,
bolle, meaning "bull", and was given as a nickname to one with great physical strength.
Boom DutchFrom Old Dutch
bom "tree", a nickname for someone tall or robust, or a toponymic surname for someone who lived by a notable tree. It could also be an occupational name for someone who operated a boom barrier
Boomgaarden East Frisian, DutchFrom Dutch
boomgaard "orchard", literally "tree garden", an occupational name for an orchard worker or a topographic name for someone who lived in or by an orchard.
Boomhouwer DutchOccupational name meaning "woodcutter", from
boom "tree" and
houwen "to hew, chop". Compare German
Baumhauer.
Boon DutchFrom
boon "bean". Refers to a person who grows beans, or a nickname for someone tall and thin (i.e. stringbean).
Boonyaratglin ThaiFrom Thai บุญ (
bun) meaning "delight; happiness", รัต (
rat) of unknown meaning, and กลิน (
klin) of unknown meaning.
Boorman EnglishThis surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and may be either a topographical name for someone who lived in a particularly noteworthy or conspicuous cottage, from the Old English
bur "bower, cottage, inner room" with
mann "man", or a locational name from any of the various places called Bower(s) in Somerset and Essex, which appear variously as
Bur,
Bure and
Bura in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Boot EnglishMetonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots, ultimately from Old French
bote "boot, high-sided leather shoe".
Boot German, DutchMetonymic occupational name for a boat builder, sailor, or a ship’s carpenter, from Dutch
boot "boat, ship".
Boot Dutch, GermanPatronymic form of
Bode, derived from either Old High German
boto "messenger, envoy" or the related
bot "command, order".
Boothroyd EnglishHabitational name for a person from the village named Boothroyd in Yorkshire, from Middle English
both "hut, stall" and
royd "cleared land" (derived from Old English
rod).
Bora Indian, AssameseFrom a military title used during the Ahom Kingdom that indicated an official who commanded 20 soldiers.
Borák CzechHabitational name for someone from one of many places named with bor meaning "pine forest"; alternatively from a short form of the personal names Dalibor or Bořivoj, containing the element -bor meaning "battle".
Borbak-ool TuvanDerived from Tuvan борбак
(borbak) meaning "round, rounded, spherical" combined with оол
(ool) "son, boy".
Borberg DanishBorberg is derived from the location Borbjerg in Western Jutland in Denmark.
Borcha AragoneseProper, non-Castilianized form of
Borja; it indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.