Knoll Family History
Knoll Name Meaning
English and German: topographic name for someone living near a
hilltop or mountain peak, from Middle English knolle ‘hilltop’,
‘hillock’ (Old English cnoll), Middle High German knol
‘peak’. In some cases the English name is habitational, from one of
the many places named with this word, for example Knole in Kent or
Knowle in Dorset, West Midlands, etc.German and Jewish
(Ashkenazic): nickname for a peasant or a crude clumsy person, from
Middle High German knolle ‘lump’, ‘clod’, German Knolle.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Knoll Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Knoll families
 90 - 177  31 - 89 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Knoll families
|
17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Knoll Family Origin
Knoll Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Knoll
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Knoll Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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