Pool Family Name and Heraldry

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Poole surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

What Pool means

Pool and Poole are two spellings with one history. Its meaning, shared with Poole, is “Dweller by a pool”.

Pool drops the “e” of Poole, a simplification that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. In the 2010 US Census, 13,505 Americans gave Pool as their last name (rank 2,669). Spanish statistics put 130 people with Pool in first position and 97 in second.

Get the complete Pool report, with a museum-style coat of arms.