The Woll surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,493 people carried this name — #18,502 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 196,100 people counted. That is down 4% from 1,556 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 80 people named Woll live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Misiones.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 68 people named Woll.
9 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Moselle.
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
36 people named Woll live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
438 people named Woll are counted in Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Woll,
with a public archive behind them.
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Karl August Woll 1834–1893 · writer
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Bobby Woll 1911–1999 · basketball coach
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Ed Woll 1914–2010 · engineer
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Moisés Woll Dávila 1915–2006 · businessperson
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Erna Woll 1917–2005 · composer
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Balthasar Woll 1922–1996 · military personnel
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Woll.
- Wolf 70,031 · U.S. census
- Wolfarth 274 · U.S. census
- Wolfer 1,390 · U.S. census
- Wolfersberger 188 · U.S. census
- Wolff 21,815 · U.S. census
- Wolfs 121 · U.S. census
- Wolle 348 · U.S. census
- Wolny 321 · U.S. census
- Woloszyn 798 · U.S. census
- Wolski 1,965 · U.S. census
- Wolter 4,511 · U.S. census
- Wong 111,371 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Woll is.
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