Ball Family History
- Ball Name Meaning
- English: nickname for a short, fat person, from Middle English bal(le) ‘ball’ (Old English ball, Old Norse b{o,}llr). English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le), used in this sense. English: from the Old Norse personal name Balle, derived either from ballr ‘dangerous’ or b{o,}llr ‘ball’. South German: from Middle High German bal ‘ball’, possibly applied as a metonymic occupational name for a juggler, or a habitational name from a place so named in the Rhine area. Dutch and German: short form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with the element bald (see Bald).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,323,485 Historical Documents with Ball on Ancestry
- 1,664,370 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 968,748 Census and Voter Lists
- 198,678 Military Records
- 81,113 Immigration Records
- 2,410,576 Member Trees
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Number of Ball families
 2,434 - 4,865  812 - 2,433 |
 1 - 811  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ball families
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147 - 291 50 - 146 |
1 - 49 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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