Girl name origins & meanings English : Variation of Molly Girl name variations Polly Pauleigh Pollee Polley Pollie Pollyann Pollyanna Pollyanne Family name origins & meanings Italian : from pollo ‘chicken’, from Latin pullus ‘young animal’, applied perhaps as a nickname or a metonymic occupational name for a poultry keeper.Italian : variant of Poli (see Polo).