Last name: POL
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Last name frequency
POL : This last name is indexed 520,854 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
POL : 1: Catalan and French (mainly northern also Occitan): from the personal name Pol equivalent to Paul.2: Dutch and North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a grassy mound from Middle Dutch pol ‘tussock’.3: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Pohl.4: Polish: ethnic name meaning ‘Pole’ (see Polak).5: Polish: from a shortened or shortened form of any of several personal name containing the syllable -pol- e.g. Polikarp Hipolit or Leopold.
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Most indexed places
- Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, 62767 (12,881)
- Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, 62130 (7,406)
- Amsterdam (6,956)
- Goirle (6,753)
- Tilburg (6,194)
- Ede (5,811)
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- Hoogeveen (5,300)
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- Nijkerk (4,610)
- Amersfoort (3,858)
- Utrecht (3,414)
- Barneveld (3,165)
- Emmen (3,066)
- Paris (3,015)
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- Frévent, 62361 (1,454)
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- Breda (1,443)
- Alkmaar (1,378)
- Haarlemmermeer (1,359)
- Wijk (1,350)
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- Harlingen (936)
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- Belgium (5,119)
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- Italy (1,839)
- Turkey (1,397)
- Germany (1,389)
- United Kingdom (1,336)
- Hungary (949)
- Palestine (854)
- Austria (596)
- Luxembourg (549)
- Norway (488)
- Switzerland (443)
- Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (305)
- Indonesia (298)
- Poland (253)
Available collections for this name
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(12,694) - Other
(9,805) - Books
(5,174) - Magazines
(1,701) - Cemeteries
(696) - Coats of Arms
(212) - Obituaries
(166) - Memorials
(89) - Memory of places
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