Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant of Moll.
- North German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of wooden bowls, from Middle Low German molde ‘bowl’, ‘trough’, ‘tub’ (from Latin mulctra ‘milking tub’).
- Dutch : variant of Mol 1.
- Dutch (van Molle) : variant of Mol 2.
- French : topographic name from a diminutive of mol, mou ‘soft’, denoting boggy ground.
- Southern French : variant of Mole ‘knife grinder’.