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pond Name Meaning and History
- Southern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a pond or lake, from Middle English pond ‘enclosed expanse of water’, in particular a man-made one (an altered form of Pound).
- Dutch: from pond ‘pound’ (a measure of weight and a coin), probably a metonymic occupational name for a controller of weights and measures or a minter.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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