Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so
named from Old Norse pollr ‘small bay’, ‘pond’.English: possibly a respelling of Irish Polan,
Polin, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Póilin ‘son
of Pólin’, from a pet form of Pól, Gaelic form of
Paul.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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