Släkthistoria för Dolling
Dolling Vad efternamn betyder
from an unrecorded Middle English word *dolling *douling or *dulling meaning ‘dull person’. Compare Doll.Post-medieval examples of the name may also have arisen from a late assimilation of rl to ll in Dorling a variant of Darling: Samuel Dorling 1770 is identical with Samuel Dolling 1782 in Parish Registers (West Stow Suffolk). Here the pronunciation of the first syllable of Dolling may alternatively be with a short o like that in modern doll.alternatively it may be a post-medieval variant of Dowland (2).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
