Polden Family History
Polden Name Meaning
from Polden Hill (Somerset) which is recorded as Poweldun in 1235–52 and Poulden in 124 The place-name derives from the name of a lost place recorded as Pouholt in a 14th-century copy of a document from 729 + Old English dūn ‘hill’. The place-name recorded as Pouholt may derive from Old Welsh pou ‘country’ + Old English holt ‘wood thicket’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016