At a Glance: Name: Polk – Meaning: little pool – Origin: Scottish (surname) – Gender: Boy – Pronunciation: POHK
Polk is a Scottish (surname) boy's name meaning “little pool”. It appears in our list of 175+ State-Inspired Baby Names as American as They Come.
Meaning & Origin of Polk
Meaning: Little pool.
Origin: Scottish (surname).
A common claim: small Actually: Polk is an altered Scottish form of Pollock, not a Dutch word meaning small.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Polk
Phonetic: POHK IPA: /poʊk/
Popularity of Polk
Polk doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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