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The moll Surname

moll Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Norfolk): from the medieval female personal name Moll(e), a pet form of Mary (see Marie 1).
  2. German: nickname from a dialect term for a plump, stout person. This surname is widely established throughout central Europe, from Alsace-Lorraine to Poland.
  3. Catalan: nickname for a weak or ineffectual person, from Catalan moll ‘soft’, ‘weak’ (Latin mollis).
  4. Dutch: variant of Mol 1.
  5. (van Moll): variant of Mol 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of moll Families in the US in 1920
Number of moll families
 137-271
 46-136
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