Böhl

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place/landscape feature ‘hill, knoll’; 589 tokens

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

Böhl is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 87K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 832Kas Boehl
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M

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 Böhl 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈920 people, est.

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BoehlLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Boehl in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia 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)

Toponymic surname from a place/landscape feature ‘hill, knoll’; 589 tokens.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Böhl 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 Böhl is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈920 est.≈1 in 87K—Böhl55
US United States400as Boehl1 in 832K400Boehl128
CU Cuba≈140 est.≈1 in 81K—Boehl1
PL Poland≈67 est.≈1 in 571K—Boehl1
GB United Kingdom≈59 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Boehl4
AU Australia≈41 est.≈1 in 617K—Boehl21
IE Ireland≈9 est.≈1 in 599K—Boehl1
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5Boehl3

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; 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)

Böhl is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Peru, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bohl, Bóhl, Bôhl

  • English surname17 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Bohl, Bőhl

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bohl

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Sweden, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Bohl

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Bohl

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bohl

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Боль, Bohl, Бауле, Bol', Baule

5 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Böhl 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 German, Toponymischer Familienname: aus mhd. bühel 'Hügel, Anhöhe; Wohnstätte am Bühl' (Landschafts-/Ortsname). 589 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In German, Toponymischer Familienname aus einem Orts- oder Flurnamen zu Böhl; Bezug zur Wohnstätte/Landschaftsform, mit Varianten -Ø/-er.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Böhl
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Böhl mean, and where does it come from?
Toponymic surname from a place/landscape feature ‘hill, knoll’; 589 tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
In which country does Böhl have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 924 people named Böhl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled böhl.
How common is the name Böhl?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 5 people named Böhl in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 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, “Böhl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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