The knoll Surname

knoll Name Meaning and History

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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knoll Family Facts

Distribution of knoll Families in the US in 1920

Number of knoll families

90-177

31-89

1-30

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 127 - Messages: 319

Thread	Author	Replies
Ancestry search	EdwardKnoll	6
Christ Knoll and Mary Schultz of IL and SD	Randsay	4
Adam Knoll, son of possible Johann Knoll, b 1905 in Germany	kiteecat75	0
Erie, Pennsylvania - Knoll	kathygen	0
Beverly (married to Clyde J. Knoll) Maiden Name?	ALBERT_ROGAHN	0
new email address.... again	dragonlady_60	0
Knol(l), NICHOLAS	rldep	10
John H Knoll	Racer0612	0
KNOLL Arthur 1910 1987 we love you	t42AshleyZion_McIntoshCoND	0
KNOLL Bertha 1909 1999 we love you	t42AshleyZion_McIntoshCoND	0

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