Boland
See also: bolând
English
editEtymology 1
editVarious 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.
Proper noun
editBoland (plural Bolands)
- A surname.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Boland is the 3092nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11631 individuals. Boland is most common among White (91.7%) individuals.
Etymology 2
editProper noun
editBoland
- A region of the Western Cape province of South Africa, situated to the northeast of Cape Town.
- Synonym: Cape Winelands
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Boland”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 186.
Anagrams
editAfrikaans
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editBoland
- An upland, inland region in the Western Cape, to the northeast of Cape Town and to the southwest of the Karoo.
Derived terms
editCategories:
- English terms derived from Irish
- English terms borrowed from German
- English terms derived from German
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Irish
- English surnames from German
- Afrikaans compound terms
- Afrikaans terms with IPA pronunciation
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans proper nouns