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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : short form of any of scores of Greek family names ending with the patronymic suffix -poulos, or from this form used independently as a term of endearment. It is derived from Latin pullus ‘nestling’, ‘chick’, and occurs mainly in the Peloponnese.

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