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).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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