Popularity of the last name by country
Sweden
- Stockholm (121)
- Göteborg (113)
- Örebro (90)
- Jönköping (89)
- Uppsala (68)
- Munkedal (49)
- Ljungby (28)
- Bollnäs (10)
- Lund (10)
- Vingåker (10)
- Vadstena (8)
- Eskilstuna (8)
- Norberg (8)
- Hagfors (6)
- Lysekil (5)
- Malmö (5)
- Ale (4)
- Eksjö (4)
- Hällefors (4)
- Boxholm (4)
- Markaryd (3)
- Mjölby (3)
- Kil (3)
- Leksand (2)
- Orust (2)
- Kalmar (2)
- Skara (2)
- Nyköping (2)
- Håbo (2)
- Tierp (2)
- Filipstad (2)
- Kristinehamn (2)
- Västerås (2)
- Sundsvall (2)
- Alingsås (1)
- Karlskrona (1)
- Mora (1)
- Gävle (1)
- Ovanåker (1)
- Tjörn (1)
- Varberg (1)
- Västervik (1)
- Växjö (1)
- Boden (1)
- Falköping (1)
- Sollentuna (1)
- Östhammar (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (275,809)
- United States (174,752)
- France (18,473)
- Australia (9,425)
- Germany (9,288)
- Ireland (7,631)
- Canada (5,978)
- New Zealand (5,941)
- Spain (2,668)
- Unknown country (2,590)
- Austria (1,375)
- Netherlands (1,369)
- Sweden (949)
- Hungary (504)
- Denmark (499)
- Italy (486)
- Switzerland (479)
- Belgium (477)
- Algeria (395)
- Finland (370)
- Russian Federation (262)
- Norway (232)
- Poland (201)
- Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (160)
- Argentina (157)
- India (144)
- Colombia (140)
- Malta (116)
- Czech republic (114)
- Mexico (102)
- Romania (102)
- Barbados (94)
- Greece (92)
- Latvia (80)
- China (72)
- South Africa (68)
- Egypt (65)
- Indonesia (64)
- Jamaica (61)
- Estonia (54)
Origine of last name
BALL : 1: English: from Middle English bal ball(e) ‘ball sphere globe round body’ (Old French balle or Old English beall(a)) a nickname for a short obese person.2: English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill from the same Middle English word bal(le) as in 1 above but applied topographically.3: English: from a Middle English adjective ball (weak form balle) in the sense ‘bald’ from ball ‘white streak bald place’.4: English: from Balle an Old Norse personal name found in placenames in England. The Scandinavian name may be for ballr ‘dangerous’ in an older sense of ‘brave’ or bǫllr ‘ball’.5: 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.6: German: from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic personal names formed with the element bald (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Bald">Bald</a>).7: Americanized form of Dutch <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Bal">Bal</a>.
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