Southern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a
pond or lake, from Middle English pond ‘enclosed expanse of
water’, in particular a man-made one (an altered form of
Pound).Dutch: from pond ‘pound’ (a measure
of weight and a coin), probably a metonymic occupational name for a
controller of weights and measures or a minter.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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