Poe
Frequency: (7989)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: nickname from Old Norse pá ‘peacock’ (see Peacock). This surname is also established in Ireland.
FOREBEARS: Poe is a common surname found in the 17th and 18th centuries in VA and SC. The ancestors of the poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) were of Scotch-Irish descent, having emigrated from Ireland to Lancaster Co., PA, in about 1748.
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