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pond Name Meaning and History

  1. 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).
  2. 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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The pond name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the pond family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of pond Families in the US in 1920
Number of pond families
 103-203
 35-102		 1-34
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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