Given name & surname · also Norwegian

Voll

“grassy field”

Voll is a surname from Norwegian, ultimately from Old Norse.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Voll goes back to Old Norse vǫllr, meaning “grassy field.”

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Where it comes from

Voll comes from Norwegian, and ultimately from Old Norse.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Old Norse vǫllr (“grassy field”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Voll’s family of names

In English usage, Voll as a surname has a related form in VOLD.

Walk Voll’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

If you love Voll, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Old Norse · Virtue

Vónbjørt

“hope” · “bright”

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Old Norse

Vörður

“guard”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Germanic

Ver

“holy”

No U.S. birth series

18% boys · 82% girls

Old Norse

Vár

Vár is a feminine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Faroese.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Old Norse

Valbjørn

“the slain, the fallen” · “bear”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Vagn

“cart”

No U.S. birth series

95% boys · 5% girls

Old Norse

Vetle

“one-year-old bear”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Vebjørn

“home” · “bear”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Voll’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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