Last name: BOLTON
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Last name frequency
BOLTON : This last name is indexed 215,663 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BOLTON : English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern England named Bolton (Lancashire Northumberland Westmorland and Yorkshire) or from Boulton in Derbyshire and East Lothian in Scotland from Old English bothl ‘dwelling house’ (see Bold 1) + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.
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