Given name & surname · also Danish

Boll

Boll is a surname with more than one origin.

Original GermanBöll

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

As a Danish and German surname, it comes from Danish Bøll.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Danish Bøll, from German Böll.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Boll’s family of names

In English usage, Boll as a surname has a related form in BOELL. In English usage, Boll as a surname has a related form in BOELL. In German usage, Boll as a surname has a related form in BOLLER.

Walk Boll’s family in the name graph

BollΜπολλBullBoyleBollerBoellBöllBøll

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Boll has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.

EnglishGerman

Germanwhere Boll comes from · 2 names

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 4

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Boll, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

German

Bohl

Bohl is a surname from German.

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German

Broll

Broll is a surname from German. It is used in Polish.

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German

Booz

Booz is a surname from German.

No U.S. birth series

79% boys · 21% girls

Germanic

Boldt

Boldt is a surname from German, ultimately from Germanic.

No U.S. birth series

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German

Bolles

Bolles is a surname from German.

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German

Botz

Botz is a surname from German.

No U.S. birth series

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Low German

Bortz

“rump”

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German

Bobst

Bobst is a surname from German.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Boll’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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