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doll Name Meaning and History

  1. South German: nickname from Middle High German tol, dol ‘foolish’, ‘mad’; also ‘strong’, ‘handsome’.
  2. South German (Döll): variant of Thiel.
  3. South German (Bavaria): topographic name for someone living in a valley, Middle High German tol ‘ditch’.
  4. North German: habitational name from Dolle, Dollen, or Döllen in Brandenburg.
  5. English: nickname for a foolish individual, from Middle English dolle ‘dull’, ‘foolish’ (Old English dol). The byform dyl(le) gave rise to Middle English dil(le), dul(le), modern English dull. Compare Dill 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of doll Families in the US in 1920
Number of doll families
 99-196
 34-98		 1-33
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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