The Tolliver surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 12,128 people carried this name — #2,958 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 24,300 people counted. That is up 8% from 11,208 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Tolliver surname

Anglicized from the occupational surname Tagliaferro, from tagliaferro (“iron-cutter”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Tolliver» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Tolliver in American newspapers,
1887–1892.

Newspaper page from The Morning News carrying the name Tolliver
The Morning News 1887-06-26
Newspaper page from The Salt Lake Herald carrying the name Tolliver
The Salt Lake Herald 1892-01-12
Newspaper page from The Indianapolis Journal carrying the name Tolliver
The Indianapolis Journal 1887-06-24

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Tolliver in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1950s.

110 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Tolliver. The most, 30, date from the 1940s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 1.3 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 51
Queensland 19
Victoria 19
South Australia 12
Tasmania 3
Western Australia 2
ACT (Canberra) 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Tolliver.

Who carried it

People named Tolliver,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Alice A. Casneau
    Alice A. Casneau 1854–1953 · writer
  • Alice A. Casneau
    Alice A. Casneau 1866–1953 · writer
  • Iona Allen 1937–2003 · seamster
  • William Tolliver 1951–2000 · painter

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Tolliver,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States525 records

525 records of the Tolliver name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 281
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 171
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 47
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 18
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 4
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Samuel Stanley Tolliver

    Born 1947; from Richmond, Virginia. U.S. Army, indirect fire infantryman; killed in action 1965 in South Vietnam. Buried at Fort Harrison National Cemetery, Virginia.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Percy H. Tolliver

    Born 1920 in Illinois. Enlisted 1942 at Peoria; porter from Macon County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery, Illinois.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Omer Tolliver

    U.S. Army veteran of World War I. Born 1889, died 1978; buried at Little Rock National Cemetery, Arkansas.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 525 records for Tolliver in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Canada69 records

69 records of the Tolliver name in Canada
  • Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 59
  • Halifax municipal cemeteries 10
  1. A Canadian First World War grave register card for a soldier who died of wounds in 1917
    Example: Canadian war grave register, 1917
    War record George Washington Tolliver

    Served in the No. 2 Construction Battalion in the First World War, private; of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
  2. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Pearlina Tolliver

    Buried in 1997 at Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, aged 94.

    Halifax Regional Municipality. Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax.
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Birth record Mary Rita Tolliver

    Born 1923 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Showing 3 of 69 records for Tolliver in Canada.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. · Halifax Regional Municipality. Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Canadian First World War circumstances-of-death register (scan by Scottgraham87 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0); Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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