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Ball

in West Virginia

There are 1,959 people with the last name "Ball" in West Virginia.

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Ranking in West Virginia

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Ball 79
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  1. is 75th most common Casto
  2. is 76th most common Harper
  3. is 77th most common Turner
  4. is 78th most common Webb
  5. is 79th most common Ball
  6. is 80th most common Wood
  7. is 81st most common Barker
  8. is 82nd most common Murphy
  9. is 83rd most common Mills

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ball

David, James, Robert, John, William, Michael, Charles, Richard, Paul

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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