Tol Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Behind the Tol surname stands Toll, an English name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way. In origin, the name means “A descendant of Toll”.

• Related forms: Tolle and Tall.
• About 363 people in the United States were recorded as Tol in 2010, placing it 56,310 on the national list.
• Without the “l” of Toll, Tol is a simpler written form of the same name.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Tol, so the heraldry linked to Toll is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Tol family name pack.