Given name & surname
Bold
“daring courageous”
Bold is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an English surname, Bold goes back to a word meaning “daring courageous.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
As an English surname, it goes back to a word meaning “daring courageous”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bold’s family of names
In English usage, Bold as a surname has a related form in BOLT. Bold is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Болд.
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Nicknames & forms 1
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