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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: Small

First name variations: Paola, Paolina, Paule, Pauleen, Paulene, Pauletta, Paulette, Paulie, Paulina, Pauline, Paulita, Pauly, Paulyn, Pavla, Pavlina, Pavlinka, Polcia, Pollie, Polly, Paula

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Asturian-Leonese: habitational name from any of the places named Pola or La Pola in Asturies, from a variant of puebla ‘settlement’ (Latin popula).
  2. Catalan: habitational name from any of the places named Pola, La Pola, or Santa Pola in Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands, or from the female personal name Pola (Latin Paula).
  3. Italian: habitational name from the city of Pola in Istria (Croatia), Croatian name Pula.