Southern English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pool or pond, Middle English pole (Old English pol), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, as for example Poole in Dorset, South Pool in Devon, and Poole Keynes in Gloucestershire.English: from a medieval variant of the personal name Paul.Jewish (from the Netherlands) and Dutch: ethnic name for someone from Poland.Probably a variant of German Pohl 1, Puhl, or Pfuhl, all topographic names from Middle Low German pol, Middle High German pfuol, ‘pool’, ‘pond’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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