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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Middle English personal name Toll, Old English Toll, or Old Norse Tóli, the latter being derived from a reduced form of a compound name such as þórleifr (composed of the elements þórr, name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor) + leifr ‘relic’) or þórleikr (composed of the elements þórr + leikr ‘sport’, ‘play’).
  • English : topographic name from toll ‘clump of trees’, a dialect term of Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire.
  • German : nickname from Middle High German tol, dol ‘foolish’, also ‘pretty’ or ‘handsome’.
  • German : from a reduced form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).

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