Bula

Two main origins:

• Borrowed from Polish Bula or Buła, from buła (“round object; fat person”).
• Borrowed from American Spanish Bula.

Bula (countable and uncountable, plural Bulas)

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Bailey County, Texas, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bula is the 37735^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 589 individuals. Bula is most common among White (59.08%) and Hispanic/Latino (34.47%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bula”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 249.

• Hyphenation: Bu‧la
• IPA^(key): /buˈlaʔ/ [buˈl̪aʔ]

Bulâ

1. a municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines

Perhaps from bula (“handwritten document from the papal chancellery”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbula]

Bula m anim (female equivalent Bulová)

1. a male surname

• “Bula”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈbuɫa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈbula/

Bula f

1. a female given name

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Bula”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.la/
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: Bu‧la

Bula m pers

1. a male surname

Bula f

1. a female surname

• “Bula”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

• IPA^(key): [ˈbula]

Bula m pers (female equivalent Bulová)

1. a male surname

• “Bula”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈlaʔ/ [bʊˈlaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: Bu‧la
• Homophone: bula

Bulâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ)

1. a municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines