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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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