Bold Family History
Bold Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English bold ‘courageous’,
‘daring’ (Old English b(e)ald, cognate with Old High German
bald). In some cases it may derive from an Old English personal
name (see Bald).English: topographic name for someone who
lived or worked at the main house in a settlement, from Old English
bold, the usual West Midland and northwestern form of Old
English boðl, botl ‘dwelling house’, ‘hall’.English: habitational name for someone from Bold in Lancashire,
which is named with Old English bold ‘dwelling’, as in 2 above.German: from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a
short form of the various compound names with the element bald
‘bold’, notably Baldwin in the north, and Reinbold in
the south.Swedish: probably of German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bold Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bold families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bold families
|
185 - 367 62 - 184 |
1 - 61 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bold families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bold Family Origin
Bold Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bold
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Bold Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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