First name origins & meanings:
- Irish: Renowned, noble
- Scottish: Famous, a champion
First name variations: Nolin, Nolyn, Nowlan, Nolan
Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch and North German: from a Germanic personal name formed
with an element cognate with Middle Low German nōt
- Swedish: probably an ornamental or
habitational name formed with Nol-, from Nord- ‘north’,
plus the adjectival suffix -én, from Latin -en(i)us.
However, it may also be a variant of Nolin, which in at least
one case is derived from a place called Skällsäter, by
Latinization of Skäll-, erroneously thought to be derived
from Swedish skälla ‘little bell’, Latin nola. The
place name is in fact derived either from Swedish dialect
skäll ‘barren’, ‘infertile’, or from Swedish sköld
- Irish: variant spelling of Nolan.
- Jewish: unexplained.
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