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kroll Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Dutch: nickname for someone with curly hair, from Middle High German krol ‘curly’, Middle Low German krulle ‘ringlet’, ‘curl’, Middle Dutch croel, crul (apparently a loanword from German).
  2. German and Polish: variant of Krol.
  3. German: (also Kröll): from the Germanic personal name Rollo, based on hrod ‘renown’, ‘victory’.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Krol.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kroll Families in the US in 1920
Number of kroll families
 77-152
 26-76		 1-25
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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