Catalan and Occitan: from the personal name Pol,
equivalent to Paul.Dutch: topographic name for
someone who lived by a grassy mound, from Middle Dutch pol
‘tussock’.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of
Pohl.Polish: ethnic name or regional name meaning
‘Pole’ (see Polak).Polish: from a shortened or reduced
form of any of several personal name containing the syllable
-pol-, e.g. Polikarp, Hipolit, or Leopold.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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