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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of the Norman habitational name Beaulieu, or possibly a variant of Bulley.
  • Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak Bulej (see Bula).
  • Perhaps a variant of German Puley, from a short form for the medieval saint’s name Pelagius (see Boley).

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