The story
- Polish · derived fromBolesław
- Proto-Slavic · derived from*plъkъ“army, crowd”
- English todayPolk
* As a Scottish surname, shortened from Pollock. * As a Upper Sorbian surname Półk, Pólk, probably shortened from a personal name based on Proto-Slavic *plъkъ (“army, crowd”), see Polka. * As an East German surname of Slavic origin, variant of Polke, itself from a Silesian form of Polish Bolesław.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.