Tolley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: little Toll
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtɑɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tolley is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
little Toll.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Louis Tolleyb. 1889GBBritish politician (1889-1959)
- Harold S. Tolleyb. 1894USAmerican politician (1894-1956)
- Cyril Tolleyb. 1895GBBritish amateur golf champion and briefly a Liberal Party politician (1895-1978)
- William P. Tolleyb. 1900USSyracuse University Chancellor
- George S. Tolleyb. 1925USAmerican economist
- Rodney S. Tolleyb. 19461946-
- Anne Tolleyb. 1953NZNew Zealand politician
- Jamie Tolleyb. 1983GBBritish footballer (born 1983)
- Glenn Tolleyb. 1983GBWelsh footballer (born 1983)
- H. Dennis Tolleystatistician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.7K | #6,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.6K | #5,936 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 4.6K | #1,731 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #55,822 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #55,153 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #209,729 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #107,965 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #177,240 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Tolley mean, and where does it come from?
- little Toll. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Tolley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɑɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tolley have the most bearers?
- Tolley is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Tolley?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tolleyThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tolley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.