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Origin Of The Surname Pollock
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Meaning Of The Surname Pollock
From the Town by the Pool
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Interesting
Facts About
Pollock
Pollock is thought to be a locational surname coming from the place so-called in Scotland. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Gaelic ‘poll’ which meant pool. The place in Scotland would originally have been located next to a pool. Jackson Pollock the American painter is a famous bearer of this surname. |
Pollock Statistics
Pollock is the number 1204 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,224 share the surname Pollock in the UK.
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