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How Popular Is The Name Poe
Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname from Old Norse pá ‘peacock’ (see Peacock). This surname is also established in Ireland.
- 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.