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bullis Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Cambridgeshire): probably a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in a cattle shed, or a topographic name for someone who lived by one, from a reduced form of Middle English bulehus ‘bull house’, from bul(l)e, bol(l)e ‘bull’ + h(o)us ‘house’.
  2. Latvian: nickname or metonymic occupational name from bullis ‘bull’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bullis Families in the US in 1920
Number of bullis families
 68-134
 23-67		 1-22
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Threads: 120 - Messages: 454
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OBIT: Billie Bullis Garrison LGarrisonBuck 3
relatives katieskids 0
Orilla Bullis Leeds County Ontario Steve 9
Caroline Bullis bdouglah12 0
Bullis Family djhollinger 19
Through NY, Ohio, and Iowa CattronSnell 3
looking for father ....LONNIE BULLIS LBullis1726 14
Bulis/Bullis justcropin 7
Robert "Pops" Roy Bullis catackett 0
Bullis - NY to Quebec, Canada Barb Taylor 4
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