Norwegian (Bøle):
habitational name from any of the farmsteads so named, from Old Norse
bøli ‘farm’.
Slovenian: probably from a medieval
altered short form of the personal name Valentin (see
Valentine). Replacement of initial V with B and
alternation between the vowels a and o is quite common
in Slovenian surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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