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Ball

in South Carolina

There are 772 people with the last name "Ball" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

NameRank
Ball 691
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  1. is 687th most common Cleveland
  2. is 688th most common Woodward
  3. is 689th most common Dunbar
  4. is 690th most common Trotter
  5. is 691st most common Ball
  6. is 692nd most common Browning
  7. is 693rd most common Cooley
  8. is 694th most common Houston
  9. is 695th most common Truesdale

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ball

William, James, John, David, Richard, Linda, Charles, Mary, Michael, Barbara

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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William Ball, SC (9 searches)
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