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.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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