Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname for someone supposedly resembling a mole (the burrowing mammal), Middle English mol(le) (from Dutch or Low German mol), for example in having poor eyesight.
- English : nickname for someone with a prominent mole or blemish on the face, from Middle English mole (Old English māl).
- English : from an Old English masculine personal name, Moll.
- English : from Old Norse moli ‘crumb’, ‘grain’, possibly a nickname for a small man.
- French : metonymic occupational name for a knife grinder or a maker of whetstones, from a variant of meule ‘whetstone’, ‘grindstone’, ‘millstone’.
- Italian : variant of Mule.
- Slovenian : probably a nickname for a extremely religious man, from mole ‘zealot’, a derivative of moliti ‘to pray’.