Family name origins & meanings
- South German, Austrian, and Swiss German : from a short form of a Germanic compound personal name formed with bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’.
- Possibly a variant of North German Bolt, a nickname from Middle Low German bolt ‘quick’, ‘defiant’, ‘daring’.
- from a short form of the personal name Hippolyt (see Hypolite).
- German : probably a variant spelling of Pult (see Pulte).