Irish (Sligo and Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Beólláin ‘descendant of Beóllán’, an old Irish
name of uncertain origin.English: habitational name from any of
various places such as Bowland in Lancashire and West Yorkshire,
Bowlands in East Yorkshire, and Bolland in Devon. All of these are
most probably named with Old English boga ‘bow’ (in the sense
of a bend in a river) + land ‘land’.German: of
uncertain origin; possibly from Slavic polan ‘rural person’,
‘peasant’, or a variant of Bolander, or an altered spelling of
Böhland, a name of Slavic origin, from Old Slavic
belu ‘white’, a descriptive nickname for a fair-haired person.
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