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pollard Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname for a person with a large or unusually shaped head, from Middle English poll ‘head’ (Middle Low German polle ‘(top of the) head’) + the pejorative suffix -ard. The term pollard in the sense denoting an animal that has had its horns lopped is not recorded before the 16th century, and as applied to a tree the word is not recorded until the 17th century; so both these senses are almost certainly too late to have contributed to the surname.
  2. pejorative derivative of the personal name Paul. The surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pollard Families in the US in 1920
Number of pollard families
 201-400
 68-200		 1-67
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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