The Boland surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 11,361 people carried this name — #2,908 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 23,800 people counted.
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In Belgium’s population register
At least 508 people named Boland 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 Liège.
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 136 people named Boland.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Rhône.
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.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
24 people named Boland live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Boland in American newspapers,
1905–1938.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 81,176 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Boland,
with a public archive behind them.
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Henri Boland 1854–1909 · journalist -
Charles Boland 1855– · painter -
John Pius Boland 1870–1958 · politician -
Francis Edward Boland 1873–1913 · aircraft pilot -
Gerrit Willem Boland 1874–1938 · chairperson
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 193 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Boland.
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