67%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Anglo-Saxon [1] Meaning & History From Old English bot meaning "improvement" and wulf meaning "wolf". Saint Botwulf was a 7th-century English abbot. He may be the person after whom Boston is named. Related Names Rootsbot + wulf Categories animals, canines, help, saints, wolf Sources & References Searle, William George. Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum. Cambridge, 1897, page 112.
