Bulmer Family History
Bulmer Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Durham): habitational name from either of two places called Bulmer in the North Yorkshire and Essex or from Boulmer in Northumberland. The Yorkshire place recorded in Domesday Book as Bolemere is named in Old English with bula ‘bull’ + mere ‘lake’ as is Boulmer; the Essex placename found in early records as Bulenemera is from bulena (genitive plural of bula) + mere ‘lake’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022