Boutell Family History
Boutell Name Meaning
English (Essex and Suffolk): nickname perhaps for a flour sifter from Anglo-Norman boletel buletel ‘sieve bolting-cloth’ (Old French buletel earlier buretel) ‘sieve’. In Middle English buletel was used to denote a kind of cloth especially prepared for sifting and the name may have been given to a maker of this cloth or be a shortened form of Boulter .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022