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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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