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bula Name Meaning and History

  1. Czech, Slovak, and Polish: nickname for a fat man, from bula (Polish bula) ‘hard roll’, ‘large roll of wheaten bread’. As a Polish name it may also be from bula ‘bruise’. This name is also well established in German-speaking areas.
  2. Ukrainian: nickname from bulya ‘potato’.
  3. Spanish (Mexico, Argentina): unexplained.

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

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Distribution of bula Families in the US in 1920
Number of bula families
 6-9
 3-5
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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