Pollen Family History
Pollen Name Meaning
Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named from Old Norse pollr ‘small bay pond’. English (southeastern): variant of Powling or Pullen 1 and Powling is either a habitational name from Poling in Sussex or a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English polling a derivative of Middle English polle ‘head hair of the head’ or pollen ‘to cut (hair) shave (someone's head)’ + the noun-forming suffix -ing. It may have been given to someone with a distinctive head of hair or who had a shaven head. Dutch and German: patronymic from Pol
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022