Ball
in the US
There are 65,391 people with the last name "Ball" in the United States.
Ranking in the US
| Name | Rank |
|---|---|
| Ball | 342 |
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Meaning & History
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 (
