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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		 1-45
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 150 - Messages: 454
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MOLL FROM NY DAMIAN JUANA MOLL 3
MOLLs from Unterheimbach, Wuerttemberg, Germany Bev Colgin 6
Jewish MOLLs in Germany (now Poland) Gordon_Seyffert 2
George Moll - England Becky 5
More Moll's in Michigan oreelee1 2
Johann Michael Moll, Sr. John M. Mangus 4
Leroy Otis Moll - Minneapolis, Minnesota Brent W Moll 2
South Dakota Molls/Frasch linsto 8
Edward Moll judgesteele 3
Moll in St. Louis Jim Garner 27
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