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bolen Name Meaning and History

  1. Czech: from a pet form of the personal names Boleslav or Bolebor.
  2. Polish (Bolen): from a pet form of the personal name Boleslaw.
  3. Variant spelling of German Bohlen.
  4. Swedish (Bolén): ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + the common surname suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘descendant of’.
  5. English: variant of Bullen.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bolen name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bolen family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bolen Families in the US in 1920
Number of bolen families
 54-105
 19-53		 1-18
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 194 - Messages: 558
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parents of James Bolen (and further info on James) fatdukefan 0
Carol Bolin (boleyn) gave up girl child in Ca. 1962 brandibself 0
Leslie Bolen mlk 1
Polly Leap Bolen mrsfrankyb 0
Edna Earl Bolen geneangelkiss 0
Henry A. Bolen Phyllis 7
BOLEN etc - NC/VA/KY/TN/WV NancyMorrison59 3
Joshua bolen Va. W.Va. RogerMeadows 5
Nathaniel Bolen David W. Cole 12
Looking for geneology for John Henry Bolen NJ fhc3348067 3
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