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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so named from Old Norse pollr ‘small bay’, ‘pond’.
  • English : possibly a respelling of Irish Polan, Polin, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Póilin ‘son of Pólin’, from a pet form of Pól, Gaelic form of Paul.

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