Family name origins & meanings
- Czech : from a pet form of the personal names Boleslav or Bolebor.
- Polish (Boleń) : from a pet form of the personal name Bolesław.
- Variant spelling of German Bohlen.
- Swedish (Bolén) : ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + the common surname suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘descendant of’.
- English : variant of Bullen.