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Ball

in Missouri

There are 1,847 people with the last name "Ball" in Missouri.

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Ranking in Missouri

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Ball 275
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  1. is 271st most common Little
  2. is 272nd most common Pearson
  3. is 273rd most common Garner
  4. is 274th most common Horton
  5. is 275th most common Ball
  6. is 276th most common Francis
  7. is 277th most common Potter
  8. is 278th most common Hodges
  9. is 279th most common Burnett

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ball

David, James, Robert, John, Larry, Mary, William, Gary, Kenneth, Charles

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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