Toll as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Toll

What is the meaning of the name Toll ?

The baby name Toll is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /toʊl/ (TOHL).

Toll is English, German, Scandinavian in Origin.

Toll is a rare given name drawn from an English and German surname. In English use, it traces to Middle English tol, from Old English toll and Old Norse tollr, a Germanic family of words for a tax or customs duty. As a byname it denoted a toll collector or someone who lived by a tollgate, so the core meaning is toll keeper or customs duty. In German contexts, Toll also arose as a nickname from Middle High German tol meaning high-spirited or wild, adding the sense bold or lively. The surname appears in medieval records across England and later in Scandinavia and German-speaking regions.

As a first name, Toll remains uncommon but fits the modern surname-as-given-name style in the Anglosphere. Documented variants and related forms include Tolle, Tollie (a diminutive), Tol, and Toller. Comparable surnames-turned-names include Tully and Toole, though they have distinct Irish roots.

⚙ Toll is rarely chosen. We count 47 recorded uses of it across 18 countries.