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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a pet form of the personal name Paul.
  • Irish (Counties Armagh and Down) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Póilín, patronymic from a personal name formed from a pet form of Pól (Paul).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : regional name for someone from Poland, from a slavicized form of German Polen ‘Poland’.
  • Variant of German Bolling.

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