Poland (surname) cases, particularly in Ireland, the English "Poland" is a variant of "Polin", which is in turn an Anglicised form of the original Gaelic spelling of "Mac Póilín", which translated from Irish means "son of little Paul". This Irish surname originated as a patronymic, derived from a pet form of the Irish "Pól" (the English form of which is "Paul"). There are multiple formulations of the anglicised spelling quite often with the 'Mac' or 'Mc' removed, including: (Mc)Poland, (Mc)Polin, (Mc)Polland, (Mc)Pullen, (Mc)Pullin, (Mc)Polan which in Ireland come from the same original Gaelic. The variety in spelling of this Irish surname and
Surname as well as "FitzWilliam" or "Fitzwilliam". Irish surnames are the oldest surnames in Europe. The common prefixes "Ó" and "Mac" can be spelled with the prefix as a separate word, yielding "Ó Briain" or "Mac Millan" as well as the anglicized "O'Brien" and "MacMillan" or "Macmillan". In the United States, 1,712 surnames cover 50% of the population, and about 1% of the population has the surname Smith, which is also the most frequent English name and an occupational name ("metal worker"), a contraction, for instance, of blacksmith or other metalsmiths. Several American surnames are a result of corruptions or phonetic