Bolås

surname · Latin script

Bolås is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Shrops.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 70K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 944K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

269 people, 2010

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Shrops. locative name from Bolas Magna (Shrops), which is recorded as Belewas in 1198, Bolas in 1520, and Bowlas in 1711, or Little Bolas in Hodnet (Shrops), which is recorded as Parva Boulewas in 1342. The place-names appear to have Old English *wæsse ‘wet place, marsh’ as the final element; the origin of the initial element is uncertain, but is perhaps from a diminutive of Old English boga ‘bow, arch, bend’. Some of the post-medieval bearers may belong under (2).

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bolås counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bolås is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2691 in 1.2M290—3
NO Norway781 in 70K78Bolås6
ES Spain531 in 944K53—1
PL Poland21 in 19M2——
BE Belgium11 in 12M1——

269 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bolås is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bolás, Bolas

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bolas

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Bolas

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Bolås
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—78#18,955

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bolås mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Shrops. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Bolås have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 269 people named Bolås, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bolås most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bolås is densest in Norway — about 1 in 70 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bolås?
In the United States, the national register counted 269 people named Bolås in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bolås”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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