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    The surname Boll

    A German surname, carried by 2,893 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B400

    Boll: #10,993 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Boll #10,993, 2,893 people Boll: #10,993 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Boll #10,993, 2,893 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Boll is more common than 93.2% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    * As a Danish and German surname, from Danish Bøll, German Böll. * Also as a German surname, from the personal name Baldo (see Bold). Compare Boell. * As an English surname, variant of Bull. * Also as an English surname, from the noun bowl. Compare Bowler. * As a Scottish surname, variant of Boyle.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,893 people named Boll in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,722 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,857.

    #10,993
    rank among US surnames
    2,893
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.3%
    change since 2000 (was #10,330)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,986Repp2,895106,648
    #10,987Locker2,894106,685
    #10,993Chupp2,893106,722
    #10,998Killebrew2,892106,758

    Who is named Boll

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Boll identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Boell

    Surnames that sound like Boll

    Boll has the Soundex code B400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B400.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Boll come from?
    * As a Danish and German surname, from Danish Bøll, German Böll. * Also as a German surname, from the personal name Baldo (see Bold). Compare Boell. * As an English surname, variant of Bull. * Also as an English surname, from the noun bowl. Compare Bowler. * As a Scottish surname, variant of Boyle.
    How common is the surname Boll?
    2,893 people in the United States had the surname Boll in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,722 Americans. It ranked 10,993rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Boll?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Boll identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Boll getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,857 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,893 in 2010, up 1.3%.
    What are other spellings of Boll?
    Boell.