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poulin Name Meaning and History

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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Distribution of poulin Families in the US in 1920
Number of poulin families
 83-163
 28-82
 1-27
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