Bolland
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Bolland (Devon), Bowland (Lancashire, West Riding of Yorkshire), or Bowlands (East Riding of Yorkshire); first attested John de Bolland 1237 HPD
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Dominica, 2025
Bolland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 36K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 43K
- NLNetherlands1 in 71K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Bolland (Devon), Bowland (Lancashire, West Riding of Yorkshire), or Bowlands (East Riding of Yorkshire); first attested John de Bolland 1237 HPD
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bolland 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 72K | listed | Bolland | 153 |
| US United States | 395 | 1 in 842K | 421 | Bolland | 176 |
| DE Germany | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Bolland | 50 |
| BE Belgium | 273 | 1 in 43K | 273 | Bolland | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | 242 | 1 in 71K | 242 | Bolland | 21 |
| NO Norway | 154 | 1 in 36K | 154 | — | 5 |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
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; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Bolland is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, John de Bolland 1237 HPD; John de Boughland 1351 FrY; William de Bowland 1370 FrY; John Bolland 1482 FFEss. From Bolland (Devon), Bowland (Lancs, WRYorks), or Bowlands (ERYorks).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, different form of Boland.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jean Bollandb. 1596BEBelgian Jesuit and hagiographer
- Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bollandb. 1854NLDutch philosopher (1854–1922)
- Adrienne Bollandb. 1895FRFrench aviator (1895-1975)
- Gordon Bollandb. 1943GBEnglish footballer and manager (born 1943)
- Brian Bollandb. 1951GBBritish artist
- Rob Bollandb. 1955NLDutch singer, record producer, songwriter
- Marc Bollandb. 1959NLDutch executive
- Phil Bollandb. 1976GBEnglish footballer (born 1976)
- Paul Bollandb. 1979GBEnglish footballer (born 1979)
- Dave Bollandb. 1986CACanadian ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 421 | #47,389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 411 | #54,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 395 | #52,482 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 273 | #6,101 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 247 | #7,117 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 242 | #8,569 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 154 | #10,292 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bolland mean, and where does it come from?
- from Bolland (Devon), Bowland (Lancashire, West Riding of Yorkshire), or Bowlands (East Riding of Yorkshire); first attested John de Bolland 1237 HPD Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Bolland have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 962 people named Bolland in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolland.
- Where is Bolland most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bolland is densest in Norway — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bolland?
- In the United States, the national register counted 395 people named Bolland in 2010, about 1 in 842 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bollandThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bolland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.