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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from a place in Glasgow, apparently so named from a diminutive of a British cognate of Gaelic poll ‘pool’, ‘pit’. The surname is also common in northeastern Ulster.
  • German : ethnic name for someone from Poland.
  • Americanized form of Jewish Polak.

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