About the Pollmann Surname

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Pohlmann surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

Family name meaning

Long before computers fixed spellings, Pollmann and Pohlmann were used side by side. The name is generally explained as “Pole”.

Spelled with “l” instead of “h”, Pollmann shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include Polmann, Poehlmann and Pohlman. In the 2010 US Census, 311 Americans gave Pollmann as their last name (rank 64,054). That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.

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