Tollett Family History
Tollett Name Meaning
English (Sussex and Surrey): variant of Tullett apparently a metonymic occupational name for a maker of armor from Middle English tuilet denoting a piece of medieval armor that protects the thigh a diminutive of tuile toile ‘plate of armour covering the front of the thighs’ (Old French tuile teule ‘tile plaque’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022