The Boel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 165 people carried this name — #107,669 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is down 4% from 171 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 659 people named Boel live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in East Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 104 people named Boel.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Boel,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pieter Boel 1622–1674 · painter -
Pieter Boel 1626–1674 · painter
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Cornelis Boel 1576–1621 · printmaker
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Franciscus Boel 1677–1715 · pastor
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Marius Boel 1882–1979
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Maurice Boel 1913–1998 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Boel.
- Boegler 107 · U.S. census
- Boeglin 317 · U.S. census
- Boehler 1,407 · U.S. census
- Boehm 10,730 · U.S. census
- Boehrer 120 · U.S. census
- Boehringer 562 · U.S. census
- Boell 299 · U.S. census
- Boer 1,395 · U.S. census
- Boeri 124 · U.S. census
- Boero 175 · U.S. census
- Boes 2,543 · U.S. census
- Boesch 1,587 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Boel is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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