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knoll Name Meaning and History

  1. English and German: topographic name for someone living near a hilltop or mountain peak, from Middle English knolle ‘hilltop’, ‘hillock’ (Old English cnoll), Middle High German knol ‘peak’. In some cases the English name is habitational, from one of the many places named with this word, for example Knole in Kent or Knowle in Dorset, West Midlands, etc.
  2. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a peasant or a crude clumsy person, from Middle High German knolle ‘lump’, ‘clod’, German Knolle.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of knoll Families in the US in 1920
Number of knoll families
 90-177
 31-89		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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