Ponds: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Ponds is usually a form of Pond. The name is usually explained as “Pond”.

• Ponds sounds close to Pounds, so it can help to search both.
• Ponds adds a patronymic ending to Pond, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• According to the 2010 US Census, the Ponds surname had 1,423 bearers. It sits within the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

Family crest and blazon

There is no single Ponds family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. For the full story, order the Ponds surname pack.