Family name origins & meanings
- English : of uncertain origin, possibly from an unrecorded late survival of the Old English personal name Tula.
- South German (Tüll) : from a nickname for someone who was patient, from Middle High German dult ‘patience’; or from a personal name formed with the same word; or from Middle High German tult, dult ‘fair’, ‘festival’ (Bavarian Dult).
- South German : nickname for a stubborn man, Tull.
- Altered spelling of German Toll.