Origin and popularity of the name POLO

Origin

Polo : Italian and Spanish: from the personal name Polo a variant of Italian Paolo and Spanish Pablo (see Paul).

De Polo : Italian: patronymic from the personal name Polo a northern variant of Paolo (see Paul).

Polak : 1: Polish and Jewish (Ashkenazic); Czech Slovak and Hungarian (Polák Slovak also Poľák): ethnic name for someone from Poland (Polish Polak Slovak archaic and Czech Polák). In the case of the Ashkenazic name the reference is to a Jew from Poland. This surname is also found in Germany where it is also of Sorbian origin (see 3 below) and in the Netherlands. Compare Poliak Poljak and Polyak.2: Slovenian and Croatian: topographic name for someone who lived in open country derived from polje ‘field’ or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Polje named with this word. It may also be e.g. an occupational name for a field guard (see Poljak).3: Sorbian (also Pólak): topographic name derived from Lower Sorbian pólo Upper Sorbian polo ‘field’ (compare 2 above). In some cases also an ethnic name for a Pole (compare 1 above) from Lower Sorbian Pólak Upper Sorbian Polak.4: Possibly also an Americanized form of Croatian Serbian Slovenian and Slovak Poljak. Compare Polack and Pollak.

Polan : 1: Irish and English: variant of Irish Polin and English Pullen. This surname is rare in Britain.2: Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Polyan a habitational name from Polyany in Belarus and Ukraine named with Slavic polyany ‘glad clearing’.3: Polish Czech and Sorbian: topographic name derived from Polish and Czech pole Lower Sorbian pólo Upper Sorbian polo ‘field’. The Sorbian surname is found mainly in Germanized forms Pohlan and Pollan.

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Last name frequency

Geographic distribution of the 17,907 individuals with the name POLO on Geneanet.

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