Bolling

Bolling is the 5,770th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,786 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 51,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,786
Rank: 5,770th
How common: 1 in 51,700
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Originally a nickname for someone with a large head with close-cut hair, similar to a bolling/pollard.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.7%
Black, not Hispanic 29.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Bolling

Try it on yourself

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.