Family name origins & meanings
- 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’).
- English : topographic name from toll ‘clump of trees’, a dialect term of Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire.
- German : nickname from Middle High German tol, dol ‘foolish’, also ‘pretty’ or ‘handsome’.
- German : from a reduced form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).