Bole Surname Guide

There is no single Bole family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Meaning of the name

It is easy to miss Bole in an index if you only search for Boles. The family name meaning is “Tree trunk”, the same as for Boles.

Bole drops the “s” of Boles, a shortening that clerks often made. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Bole with 1,036 bearers, at rank 24,222. French civil records give 1,046 births under the name Bole from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960. There were 62 such births in the 1890s and 97 in the 1990s.

Get the complete Bole report, with a museum-style coat of arms.