Origin and popularity of the name PULLEN

Origin

Pullen : 1: English: nickname from Middle English polein Old French poulain Anglo-Norman French pulein ‘foal colt’.2: English: variant of Pullum.3: Dutch and German: patronymic from Pul a variant of Pol 2.

Powling : 1: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English *polling a derivative of Middle English polle ‘head hair of the head’ or pollen ‘to cut (hair) shave (someone's head)’ + the noun-forming suffix -ing. It may have been given to someone with a distinctive head of hair or who had a shaven head. Compare Topping. 2: from Poling (Sussex) which is recorded as Paling(e) and Palyng from the 12th to 16th centuries Palinges in 1199 and Polynge in 1305. The place-name derives from Old English pāl ‘stake pole’ (or from a nickname derived from pāl) + the group-name suffix -ingas. This surname may have been confused with Pullen in (3); compare Baltazer Pullen 1639 Elizabeth Polling 1747 in IGI (Petworth Sussex). See also Poland. 3: variant of Pullan and Pullen; compare Ann Polling 1736 Richard Pullan 1789 in IGI (Bury Lancs).

Puller : 1: Scottish and English: nickname from Middle English pullen ‘to pluck shear skin’ + har(r)e ‘hare’ probably for one who skinned hares but perhaps with some other colloquial and pejorative sense.2: Scottish and English: variant of Pillar.3: German: nickname for a knight who had traveled to Apulia (Italian Puglia). The Pullers were vassals of the Hohenstaufens in the 13th–15th centuries; between 1262 and 1482 their stronghold was the castle of Hohenbourg in Alsace.4: Americanized form of German Pfüller Pfuller a variant of Pfuhl.

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