Italian: origin uncertain; perhaps from a feminine form of an
unattested male personal name Rollo, of Germanic origin.German: nickname for a farmer, from Sorbian rola
‘cultivated field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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