The story
- German · borrowed fromBoland
- Irish · derived fromÓ Beolláin“descendant of Beollán”
- English todayBoland
Various origins: * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Beolláin (“descendant of Beollán”), a personal name of uncertain origin. * A variant of Bowland, an English habitational surname. * Borrowed from German Boland, a surname of uncertain origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.