Family name origins & meanings
- English : occupational name for a bolter or sifter of flour, from Middle English bo(u)lt ‘to sift’ (Old French buleter, of Germanic origin).
- English : occupational name for a maker of bolts or bars, from an agent derivative of Middle English bolt (see Bolt).
- German : habitational name for someone from a lost place named Bolt. It is the name of a large family from Hechingen, Württemberg.
- German (also Bölter) : occupational name for a maker of wooden bolts for crossbows, Middle High German bolter.
