Ball (surname)

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Ball is an English surname that has multiple potential origins, as do many short surnames:

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According to Bowman, Ball and related names had only "limited application as personal names and that generally they have come into existence as nicknames." [1]

List of people with the surname

Arts and music

see Writing and education below for writers

Business

Media

Military

Politics, law, and diplomacy

Religion

Sciences and mathematics

Sports

Writing and education

Other

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Bowman, William Dodgson (2012) [1932]. "Chapter IV: Patronymics" . The Story of Surnames and Genealogy (Republication). Read Books Limited. Baldwin. ISBN   9781447487357 via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 3 "Last Name: Ball", Internet Surname Database, Name Origin Research, retrieved 21 Dec 2011
  3. Heck, Earl L. W. (1928). Colonel William Ball of Virginia, the Great-Grandfather of Washington via Google Books.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. Seary, E; Kirwin, William; Lynch Sheila MP (1998), Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, p. 20, ISBN   9780773517820 via Google Books

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