Frequency: (1587)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Altered spelling of the Swiss habitational names Ebersol, Ebersold, Äbersold, Aebersold, from any of several places so named, from Middle High German eber ‘wild boar’ + sol, sul ‘wallow’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
