Trol
surname · Latin script
Meaning: troll (large, grotesque humanoid living in caves, hills or under bridges)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɹoʊɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Trol is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 2M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 195Kas Troll
- PLPoland1 in 479Kas Troll
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Trol itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0M (inferred from the name graph)
405 named Troll, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
troll (large, grotesque humanoid living in caves, hills or under bridges)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trol counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 405as Troll | 1 in 821K | 579 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 80as Troll | 1 in 479K | 48 | Trol | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 43as Troll | 1 in 195K | 43 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 26as Troll | 1 in 665K | 26 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | — | — |
405 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Trol is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, troll (mythological creature)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, cart (two-wheeled vehicle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, troll (fantastic being)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, starch in powder form
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Khmer, fluently. [?JCU a
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #71,619 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 25 | #71,513 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #108,497 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #147,364 |
Reference works 1
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trol mean, and where does it come from?
- troll (large, grotesque humanoid living in caves, hills or under bridges) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Trol?
- A machine transcription gives /tɹoʊɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Trol?
- In the etymology graph, Troll is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Trol have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 405 people named Troll, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Trol most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Trol is densest in Spain — about 1 in 2.0 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Trol?
- In Spain, the national register counted 25 people named Trol, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Trol?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/trolThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Trol”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.