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boll Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Danish: topographic name from Middle High German boll ‘rounded hill’, or a habitational name from any of several places called Boll, named with this word.
  2. German (Böll): derivative of the Germanic personal name Baldo (see Bold 4).
  3. Swedish: possibly a soldier’s name or else an ornamental adoption of 1 or 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of boll Families in the US in 1920
Number of boll families
 38-74
 13-37
 1-12
 0
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