Dollar
A surname most often taken from the town and parish of Dollar in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
The #5,429 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 48,136 Americans shares it.
Etymology
This surname is usually explained as a locational name from Dollar, the town and parish in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. In surname use, it would originally have meant “one from Dollar.” Some older writers also noted continental forms like De Doller, but the Scottish place-name explanation is the standard one for the surname in Britain.
History
19th-century surname dictionaries regularly treat Dollar as a local name from the Scottish place-name. The name is uncommon, but it has been recorded in Britain for centuries and later appears in the United States as well. Because the modern coin name is so familiar, the surname can look misleadingly like a money word, but the family-name origin is older than that association.
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Fun fact
Some old dictionaries explicitly warned that the modern spelling Dollar is likely to be influenced by the common word for a coin.
From the historical record
“Doll, Dolle, De Doll. H.R. DOLLAR. A town and parish in Clack- mannanshire. DOLLINTG. About the year 1580, a younger son of the Count Dolling, of Doll- ing, near Toulouse, having embraced Huguenot opinions, is said to have tied into England, and settled in the Isle of Purbeck. DOL]\IAN. DOLLMAN. The verb”
— Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom