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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English, Scottish, and North German (also Töller) : occupational name for a toll taker or tax collector, from an agent derivative of Middle English toll ‘tax’, ‘payment’, Middle Low German toll (from Late Latin toloneum, teloneum, a derivative of Greek telos ‘tax’).
  • English : habitational name from Toller in Dorset, named from a British river name, apparently composed of elements akin to Welsh toll ‘hollow’, ‘pierced’ + dw(f)r ‘stream’.
  • German : from a short form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).
  • German : nickname meaning ‘foolish one’ or ‘handsome one’; a noun derivative of Toll 3.

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