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rolling Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a pet form of the personal name Rollo or Rolf.
  2. German: patronymic from the personal name Role, a reduced form of Rudolf.
  3. German: habitational name from any of several places called Rolling in Silesia.
  4. (Rölling): variant of 2 and 3, or a nickname for a lecher, from Rölling ‘tom cat’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rolling Families in the US in 1920
Number of rolling families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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