Boell

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A surname from the Germanic languages

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɔəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Boell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 9.9Kas Boll(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 18Kas Boll
  • USUnited States1 in 115Kas Boll

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Boell itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈28,000 named Boll, est.

Sources
268 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 264K (inferred from the name graph)

Singapore, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BollLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Boll in US United States, DE Germany, DK Denmark and 4 more.

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)

A surname from the Germanic languages.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Boell 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 Boell is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈28,000 est.≈1 in 50K—Boll3
DE Germany—≈4,500 est.≈1 in 18K—Boll124
US United States—2,893as Boll1 in 115K2.9KBoll268
BR Brazil—1,014as Boll1 in 209K1K—2
ID Indonesia—≈630 est.≈1 in 424K—Boll11
DK Denmark#677592as Boll1 in 9.9K592Boll61
NL Netherlands—371as Boll1 in 47K371Boll32
CH Switzerland—267as Boll1 in 31K267Boll33
SG Singapore—≈23 est.≈1 in 264K—Boell5

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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)

Boell is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Colombia

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Böell

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Boëll, Boe͏̈ll

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Boëll, Böell

  • Danish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Bøll

27 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18401860188019001920Paul Victor Boell, b. 1858Paul-Wilhelm Boell, b. 1883Heinrich Boell, b. 1890Jacques Boell, b. 1908Ed Boell, b. 1917

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)

FormalDear Boell,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Boell
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020322#66,338
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000302#62,046
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010299#66,164
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—271#28,738
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Boell mean, and where does it come from?
A surname from the Germanic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Boell?
A machine transcription gives /bɔəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Boell have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Boll in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Boell?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,893 people named Boll in 2010, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
How common is Boell compared with other names?
In Denmark, Boell is the 677th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boell

The 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, “Boell” — the 677th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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