Pollerd Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Many Pollerd families will find their roots under Pollard, the form most records use. The name is generally explained as “Cropped head”.

Pollerd coat of arms

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Pollerd, so the heraldry linked to Pollard is a starting point, not an automatic right.

A variant of Pollard

The two spellings differ in a small detail: Pollerd has “e” where Pollard has “a”. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. Related forms: Polard and Pullard.

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