# Toll (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/toll/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,276 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,383 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 135,653 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.0% (2,168 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Tole, Toles |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, variant of Towle, Tole. * As a German surname, from the adjective toll, meaning both "wonderful" and "crazy, mad." Also shortened from Bartholomäus. * As a Dutch surname, variant of Tol, sometimes shortened from Van Toll.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Toll in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 0.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Toll in the Russian Empire.

## People named Toll

- Eduard von Toll, Baltic German explorer (1858–1902)

## Similar surnames

Toole, Tull, Tolley, Till, Towle, Tolle, Tall, Tell, Toal, Tola, Tole, Towell.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.