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’.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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