Frequency: (801)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Spanish (Bolaños): habitational name from either of two places, Bolaños de Calatrava in Ciudad Real province or Bolaños de Campos in Valladolid, so named with the plural of Spanish bolaño ‘stone ball’.
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