Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish: habitational name from Dollar in Clackmannanshire.
- Americanized spelling of German <xref>Dahler</xref>, Daler, or
Taler, topographic names for someone who lived in a valley,
from Middle High German tal ‘valley’ + the suffix -er
denoting an inhabitant. The American word dollar is from Czech
tolar, German Thaler, denoting a silver coin first
minted at the silver mines at Joachimsthal (‘Joachim’s valley’)
in Bohemia (Czech name: Jáchymov).
- Americanized
spelling of Slovenian Dolar, topographic name for someone who
lived in a valley, from dol ‘valley’, a derivative of Old High
German tal ‘valley’.
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