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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (of Slavic origin) : from polan ‘dweller in a field’ (from Slavic polje ‘plain’, ‘field’), probably a nickname for a peasant as against a villager or townsman, which then came to denote someone from Poland.

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