Bole

Locally spelled Bolin in SE Sweden.

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

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

• Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Bolé, Böle

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

  Also written Bôle, Bolé

• Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Venezuela, Philippines

  Also written Bolé, Böle

• a separate name5 spellings in the group

  Also written Böle, Bolě, Bôle, Bolé

52 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.

Bole is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, var of Bale.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Norwegian Bokmål, To use anabolic steroids to increase one's muscle mass.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Galician, third-person singular present indicative of bulir

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Serbo-Croatian, feminine plural active past participle of bosti

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In dsb, superseded spelling of bóle

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

• David Wesley Boleb. 1856CACanadian politician
• Anton Boleb. 1916SISlovene judge (1916-1990)
• Janez Boleb. 1919SISlovenian composer (1919–2007)
• Jože Boleb. 1929SISlovene zoologist (1929-1995)
• Filipe Boleb. 1936FJFijian politician (1936-2019)
• Cliff Boleb. 1937USAmerican television director (1937–2014)
• Mary Jo Boleb. 1956USvisual artist (born 1956)
• Navina Boleb. 1983INIndian actress
• Grega Boleb. 1985SIroad bicycle racer
• Bo BoleQing dynasty person CBDB = 356545

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Bole mean, and where does it come from?

The trunk or stem of a tree. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Bole?

In the etymology graph, Bohle is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Bole?

In English /bol/ (Wiktionary).

In which country does Bole have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Bolin, more than in any other country we hold.

Where is Bole most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bole is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 6.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Bole?

In India, the national register counted 609 people named Bole, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.

How common is Bole compared with other names?

In Slovenia, Bole is the 712th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.