Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant of Tolk, Tölke, from the Slavic verb toliti ‘to soothe’. Compare Toelke.
- Perhaps an altered spelling of German Tolk, an occupational name for an interpreter, Middle Low German tolk, tollik.
- Altered spelling of German Tölk or Tolk, a habitational name from places so called in former East Prussia.