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bolla Name Meaning and History

  1. Catalan and Spanish: from bolla ‘sphere’, ‘ball’. How it was acquired as a surname is unclear; it may have been a nickname for a fat person. In Spanish bolla is also a regional term denoting various types of cakes and pastries and in some cases the surname may have arisen from this sense.
  2. Hungarian: variant of Balla, pet form of the personal name Barabás, or Barnabás (see Barnaby).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bolla name in History

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Distribution of bolla Families in the US in 1920
Number of bolla families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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