Given name & surname · also Middle English
Ball
Ball is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Cornish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ball comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Cornish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Ball as a surname developed from Baldwin.
Ball’s family of names
In English usage, Ball as a surname developed from Baldwin. In English usage, Ball as a surname has a related form in BALLER.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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