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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a pet form of the personal name Rollo or Rolf.
  • German : patronymic from the personal name Role, a reduced form of Rudolf.
  • German : habitational name from any of several places called Rolling in Silesia.
  • (Rölling) : variant of 2 and 3, or a nickname for a lecher, from Rölling ‘tom cat’.

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