Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish (Leinster and Munster) and English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Pois, a place in Picardy (said to
have been named with Old French pois ‘fish’ because of its
well-stocked river), from Old French Pohier ‘native of
Pois’.
- English: nickname for a poor man, or ironically for a
miser, from Middle English, Old French povre, poure
‘poor’ (Latin pauper). Woulfe gives this also as the meaning of
the Norman Irish name, which in early records is found as le
Poer, believing it to be a nickname for someone who has taken a
vow of poverty.
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