Boland Family History
Boland Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the district of Bowland (Forest) in North Yorkshire and Lancashire. Robert of Bowland was a member of the garrison of Stirling castle in Scotland in 1339–40 and was presumably a Yorkshireman or a Lancastrian. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beólláin ‘descendant of Beóllán’ an old Irish name of uncertain origin. See Bolan Walloon Dutch and German: habitational name from any of several places called Bol(l)and for instance a village in Liège province in Wallonia (Belgium) possibly named for a round piece of land. Compare Bolland .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022