English: from a reduced form of the personal name
Nicholas.Scottish or Irish: reduced form of McColl.Catalan: topographic name from coll ‘mountain pass’, from
Latin collis ‘hill’.Americanized spelling of German
Koll or Kohl.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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