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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : possibly a habitational name, but otherwise from a female personal name; the documentary evidence is not clear.
  • Spanish : probably a byname from poma ‘apple’, ‘fruit’.
  • Catalan : nickname from Catalan poma ‘apple’, or variant of Pomar.

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