Doll Family History
- Doll Name Meaning
- South German: nickname from Middle High German tol, dol ‘foolish’, ‘mad’; also ‘strong’, ‘handsome’. South German (Döll): variant of Thiel. South German (Bavaria): topographic name for someone living in a valley, Middle High German tol ‘ditch’. North German: habitational name from Dolle, Dollen, or Döllen in Brandenburg. English: nickname for a foolish individual, from Middle English dolle ‘dull’, ‘foolish’ (Old English dol). The byform dyl(le) gave rise to Middle English dil(le), dul(le), modern English dull. Compare Dill 3.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 410,886 Historical Documents with Doll on Ancestry
- 213,062 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 50,143 Census and Voter Lists
- 16,462 Military Records
- 7,988 Immigration Records
- 123,231 Member Trees
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Number of Doll families
 14 - 26  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Doll families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Doll census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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