Tollis is used as a family name or surname in many languages. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Tollis
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Unknown
Meaning: Focused in the Landes, this should be a place name (see the hamlet Tolle to Laurède). The direction may be close to that of the Catalan "toll" (= water hole, puddle).

How popular is Tollis?

Tollis is ranked 212067 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Tollises plummeted by 7.272727 per cent to 255 since 2000 and slipped by 8451 spots and ranked at 75564. The last name was found in around 1 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 92.55 91.64
Hispanic or Latino 6.67 5.09
Tollis is not so popular last name but still a prevalent surname concentrated mainly in Italy which may be its originating country too. Around 1593 people have been found who wears Tollis as their family name. Tollis is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
1,500,361 India2
16,073 Latvia1
2,232 French Polynesia1
107,212 South Africa1
172,258 Germany1
42,479 Greece1
29,774 Venezuela1
20,172 Hungary1
77,122 Sweden1
12,745 Luxembourg1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
83,908 England38
43,662 Belgium30
36,547 Switzerland27
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
42,464 Canada75
Countries with hundreds of Tollis:
19,555 Italy526
67,392 United States369
30,009 France331
14,517 Australia186

Immigrants to US

From Ireland

William Tollis worked as workman and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 21 years old embarked for USA from New Ross on Dunbrody and arrived on May 4, 1849. Workman Richard Tollis, are other Tollis that migrated to US.

From Italy

Farmer Egidio Tollis from Pescocosti, Italy aboard the Burgundia from Marseilles & Naples. He is registered to be 53 years old when he arrived in New York on June 10, 1890. 32 years old Francesco Tollis, 42 years old Gaetano Tollis, 36 years old Nicod. Tollis, 37 years old Tobia Tollis, 29 years old Vincenzo Tollis, are others that migrated to US from Genoa, Gibraltar & Naples and Havre.

Tollis Namesakes

  • Marielle Tollis, Film director

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