Boll

At the 2020 census, 2,669 Americans bore the surname Boll — 11,309th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 112,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,669
Rank: 11,309th
How common: 1 in 112,000
Per 100,000: 0.89

Where the name comes from

Origin Germanic languages

As a Danish and German surname, from Danish Bøll, German Böll.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Boll described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Boll

Heinrich Böll (1917–1985)German writer
Timo Boll (born 1981)German table tennis player
Uwe Boll (born 1965)German filmmaker
Franz Christian Boll (1849–1879)German physiologist and histologist

People named Boll with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Boll

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.