Family name origins & meanings
- French : nickname from the present participle of Old French voler ‘to fly’, in the sense of ‘nimble’, ‘agile’.
- Americanized spelling of Norwegian Våland, a habitational name from any of four farmsteads so named in Agder and Rogaland, probably from Old Norse vá ‘bend’, ‘corner’ + land ‘land’, ‘farm’.