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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English p(o)und ‘enclosure (especially for confining animals)’; a topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosure in which animals were kept, or a metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for rounding up stray animals and placing them in a pound.
  • Probably a translation of German Pfund or the North German cognate Pund.

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