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The bolling Surname

bolling Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname 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’.
  2. German (Bölling): from a pet form of a personal name formed with Germanic bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’ (see Baldwin).
  3. Swedish: either an ornamental name composed of Boll + the suffix -ing ‘belonging to’, or possibly a habitational name from a place named Bolling(e).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bolling Families in the US in 1920
Number of bolling families
 97-192
 33-96		 1-32
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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