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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of the personal name Bertold (see Berthold).
  • German : variant of Tolle.
  • Eastern German (Tölle) : of Slavic origin, from toliti ‘to soothe or calm’.

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