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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German rolle, rulle ‘roll’, ‘list’, possibly applied as a metonymic occupational name for a scribe.
  • German : from a short form of the personal names Rudolf or Roland.
  • German : habitational name for someone from either of two places named Rolle, in Westphalia and Pomerania.
  • English : variant of Rollo or Rolf.

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