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bolle Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’.
  2. 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’.
  3. Dutch: from Middle Dutch bolle ‘ball’, ‘bread bun’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a baker or a nickname for a ball player.
  4. Norwegian: habitational name from a farm in northern Norway, so named with bolle ‘rounded hill’.
  5. Swedish: variant of Boll.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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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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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 16 - Messages: 34
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Bolle Buhrer pwestman1 0
Joseph Bolle andreatrzynka 1
bolle snevs 0
Frederick Bolle phannack 2
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
Bolle from Belgium Herman Declerck 6
Looking for Dutch Family Tree Jeff Strandberg 1
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