Zoll
surname · Latin script
Meaning: custom (duty collected at the borders)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/tsɔl/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Zoll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 178K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 200K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)custom (duty collected at the borders)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zoll is found
(measured from records)Zoll 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Zoll | 103 |
| US United States | 1,336 | 1 in 249K | 1.4K | Zoll | 219 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 406K | 21 | Zoll | 31 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 693K | — | Zoll | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 413K | — | Zoll | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 97 | 1 in 178K | 97 | Zoll | 9 |
| IE Ireland | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Zoll | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Zoll | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 42 | 1 in 200K | 42 | Zoll | 11 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Zoll is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from old Germanic PN Zollo
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Luxembourgish, custom, duty
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kilian Zollb. 1818SESwedish painter (1818-1860)
- Samuel Zollb. 1934USAmerican lawyer, judge and politician
- Aqueela Zollb. 1988USAmerican actress
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zoll mean, and where does it come from?
- custom (duty collected at the borders) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Zoll?
- In the etymology graph, Toll and Zöllner are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Zoll?
- In German /tsɔl/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zoll?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Zoll in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zoll. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Congo - Kinshasa and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zoll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,336 people named Zoll in 2010, about 1 in 249 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zoll?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zollThe 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, “Zoll”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.