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toll Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Middle English personal name Toll, Old English Toll, or Old Norse Tóli, the latter being derived from a reduced form of a compound name such as þórleifr (composed of the elements þórr, name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor) + leifr ‘relic’) or þórleikr (composed of the elements þórr + leikr ‘sport’, ‘play’).
  2. English: topographic name from toll ‘clump of trees’, a dialect term of Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire.
  3. German: nickname from Middle High German tol, dol ‘foolish’, also ‘pretty’ or ‘handsome’.
  4. German: from a reduced form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).

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Distribution of toll Families in the US in 1920
Number of toll families
 24-46
 9-23
 1-8
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