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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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Distribution of bolen Families in the US in 1920
Number of bolen families
 54-105
 19-53
 1-18
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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