Family name origins & meanings
- English (Cambridgeshire) : probably a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in a cattle shed, or a topographic name for someone who lived by one, from a reduced form of Middle English bulehus ‘bull house’, from bul(l)e, bol(l)e ‘bull’ + h(o)us ‘house’.
- Latvian : nickname or metonymic occupational name from bullis ‘bull’.