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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a pool, Dutch poele, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word. Compare Poelman.
  • Altered spelling of German Pollmann, a variant of Pohl (cognate with 1), or a habitational name for someone from a place named Poll, two examples of which occur in North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pool, Middle English pol(e)man.

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