Knollys

//noʊlz// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Middle English. countable

Etymology

Topographic surname for someone who lived at the top of a hill, from a genitive or plural form of Middle English knoll (“hilltop, hillock”).

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