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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech, Slovak, and Polish : nickname for a fat man, from bula (Polish buła) ‘hard roll’, ‘large roll of wheaten bread’. As a Polish name it may also be from bula ‘bruise’.
  • Ukrainian : nickname from bulya ‘potato’.
  • Spanish (Mexico, Argentina) : unexplained.

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