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Bowlby

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Boulby in North Yorkshire or Bulby in Lincolnshire, both of which are named with the Old Norse byname Boli (from boli ‘bull’) + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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