Last name origins & meanings:
- English: nickname for a short, fat person, from Middle English
bal(le) ‘ball’ (Old English ball, Old Norse
b{o,}llr).
- 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 b{o,}llr ‘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).
- 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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