German and Dutch: ethnic name for a Pole or nickname for
someone with some other connection with Poland, from Polen
‘Poland’.Possibly also a variant of Irish Polin. pwh; Web
1; IGI many German, some Dutch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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