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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of French Bullet, from a diminutive of Bulle, from Old French bul(l)e, a term denoting a lump of lead used to seal documents, and later the documents themselves.
  • This is the name of a Huguenot family which settled at Port Tobacco, MD, in 1685.

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