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Ball

in Maryland

There are 1,396 people with the last name "Ball" in Maryland.

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  1. is 320th most common Holt
  2. is 321st most common Warner
  3. is 322nd most common Adkins
  4. is 323rd most common Grimes
  5. is 324th most common Ball
  6. is 325th most common Frank
  7. is 326th most common Fuller
  8. is 327th most common Lambert
  9. is 328th most common Doyle

Similar Names and Nicknames

Bell, Bailey, Ballard, Ballew, Ballinger, Bello, Bull, Ballou, Ballesteros, Ballenger

Most Common First Names for Ball

James, Robert, William, Mary, Charles, David, John, Richard, Michael, Kevin

Meaning & History

English: nickname for a short, fat person, from Middle English bal(le) ‘ball’ (Old English ball, Old Norse bǫllr).

English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le), used in this sense.

English: from the Old Norse personal name Balle, derived either from ballr ‘dangerous’ or bǫllr ‘ball’.

South German: from Middle High German bal ‘ball’, possibly applied as a metonymic occupational name for a juggler, or a habitational name from a place so named in the Rhine area.

Dutch and German: short form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with the element bald (see Bald).

FOREBEARS William Ball (1616–80) emigrated from Suffolk, England, to VA about 1650 and was one of the founders of Millenbeck on the Rappahannock.

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