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polk Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: reduced form of Pollock.
  2. German (of Slavic origin): from an altered pet form of the Slavic personal name Boleslav, composed of the elements bole ‘great’, ‘large’ + slav ‘glory’. This name was a favorite during the Middle Ages among the gentry class in Silesia.
  3. German: ethnic name for a Pole (see Polak).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of polk Families in the US in 1920
Number of polk families
 153-303
 52-152		 1-51
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 408 - Messages: 974
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James Polk Reese dorisabishop1 1
ANY POLK'S OUT THERE?? NICOLEPOLK24 21
Parents of William Polk (m. Margaret Taylor) ? margaret_benitez 2
Pulk / Polk sjkeno72 0
James C. A. Polk, Mary Jane Platt ramoth99 3
Ezekiel and Maria Polk cemetery photos DanSSwing 1
Rev. J. W. Polk in Morgan Co., IL 1880 pndhavens 0
Robert Polk 1817-1901 Muncie, IN scorpioforu 0
POLK Estelle DOGGETT 1917 2005 Beloved wife and loving mother t42Hilltop_DalCoTX 0
POLK FAMILIES OF FL WILLIAMODAY59 3
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