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bolt Name Meaning and History

  1. English (chiefly West Country): from Middle English bolt ‘bolt’, ‘bar’ (Old English bolt ‘arrow’). In part this may have originated as a nickname or byname for a short but powerfully built person, in part as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bolts.
  2. Danish: variant of Boldt.
  3. Variant of Bold.
  4. German: from a short form of the personal names Baldwin or Reinbold.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bolt Families in the US in 1920
Number of bolt families
 53-103
 18-52		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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