Bold Family History
- Bold Name Meaning
- English: nickname from Middle English bold ‘courageous’, ‘daring’ (Old English b(e)ald, cognate with Old High German bald). In some cases it may derive from an Old English personal name (see Bald). English: topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the main house in a settlement, from Old English bold, the usual West Midland and northwestern form of Old English boðl, botl ‘dwelling house’, ‘hall’. English: habitational name for someone from Bold in Lancashire, which is named with Old English bold ‘dwelling’, as in 2 above. German: from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of the various compound names with the element bald ‘bold’, notably Baldwin in the north, and Reinbold in the south. Swedish: probably of German origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 352,634 Historical Documents with Bold on Ancestry
- 56,192 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,186 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,307 Military Records
- 3,218 Immigration Records
- 265,731 Member Trees
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Number of Bold families
 185 - 367  62 - 184 |
 1 - 61  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bold census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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