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bold Name Meaning and History
- English: nickname from Middle English bold ‘courageous’, ‘daring’ (Old English b(e)ald, cognate with Old High German bald). In some cases it may derive from an Old English personal name (see Bald).
- English: topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the main house in a settlement, from Old English bold, the usual West Midland and northwestern form of Old English boðl, botl ‘dwelling house’, ‘hall’.
- English: habitational name for someone from Bold in Lancashire, which is named with Old English bold ‘dwelling’, as in 2 above.
- German: from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of the various compound names with the element bald ‘bold’, notably Baldwin in the north, and Reinbold in the south.
- Swedish: probably of German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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