Bolé

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bolé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 6.2K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 321K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 350K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,036 people, 2010

Sources
165 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bole in US United States, IN India, CM Cameroon.

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)

Derivation of Bolé: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Bolé
  1. Middle Englishbole(measured from records)
  2. Old Norsebolr(measured from records)

From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).

Sources 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bolé 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 Bolé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0361 in 321K1.1KBole36
IN India6091 in 2.2M609Bole4
SI Slovenia3411 in 6.2K341—2
AR Argentina651 in 700K65——
BR Brazil631 in 3.4M63——
CM Cameroon≈40 est.≈1 in 699K—Bole2
CH Switzerland241 in 350K24—2

1,036 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 2000; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Bolé is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Venezuela, Philippines

    Also written Bole, Böle

  • English surname45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Languages: English, Thai, Slovenian

    Also written Bole, Bolin, Bol, Blow, Boley

  • Indonesian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Bole

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bole, Böle

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Böle, Bolě, Bôle, Bole

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bolé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ifu, fatigue, lassitude

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bolé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bolé mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 3 other sources.
In which country does Bolé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Bolé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bole.
Where is Bolé most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bolé is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 6.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bolé?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,036 people named Bolé in 2010, about 1 in 321 thousand 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, “Bolé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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