Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant of Polte, from a short form of the personal name Hippolyt (see Hypolite).
- German : (also Pult) from Middle Low German pulpite, pult ‘desk for reading or writing’, ‘pulpit’, also (as a field name) ‘raised area’; probably a topographic name for someone living by a raised area of land. or possibly an occupational name for a manufacturer of desks.