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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : variant spelling of Pol.
  • English (Norfolk) : variant of Paul or Pool.
  • German (also Pöll) : from a short form of a personal name composed with Old High German bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’.
  • North German : variant of Pohl 2.
  • South German form of Boll.

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