The bolle Surname

bolle Name Meaning and History

German: from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’.
German: nickname in the south for a short fat man or a topographic name in the north from Middle Low German bolle ‘knoll’, ‘rounded hill’.
Dutch: from Middle Dutch bolle ‘ball’, ‘bread bun’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a baker or a nickname for a ball player.
Norwegian: habitational name from a farm in northern Norway, so named with bolle ‘rounded hill’.
Swedish: variant of Boll.

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bolle Family Facts

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Distribution of bolle Families in the US in 1920

Number of bolle families

10-17

4-9

1-3

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Thread	Author	Replies
Frederick Bolle	phannack	7
Looking for Dutch Family Tree	Jeff Strandberg	3
Bolle from Belgium	Herman Declerck	7
Joseph Bolle	andreatrzynka	2
Bolle Buhrer	pwestman1	0
bolle	snevs	0
bolle-family	will-fred paul bolle	0
John Michael Shong and Christine Bolley	mikeshong	0
Andrew Bolle (b. 1834) Prussia	bbolle1	2
Bolle Family - Berlin, Germany	AndreasBolle	0

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