French: metonymic occupational name for a breeder of poultry or
nickname for a timorous person, from a diminutive of Old French
poule ‘chicken’. It is sometimes Americanized as
Poland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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