Family name origins & meanings
- English (Norfolk) : from the medieval female personal name Moll(e), a pet form of Mary (see Marie 1).
- German : nickname from a dialect term for a plump, stout person.
- Catalan : nickname for a weak or ineffectual person, from Catalan moll ‘soft’, ‘weak’ (Latin mollis).
- Dutch : variant of Mol 1.
- (van Moll) : variant of Mol 2.