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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the numerous places in northern England named Bolton, especially the one in Lancashire, from Old English boðl ‘dwelling’, ‘house’ (see Bold 2) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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