Polich Family History

Americanized form of Slovenian Polič Croatian and Serbian Polić: from a derivative of pol ‘half’ used as a status name for a peasant who held half the standard measure of land or for a tenant of a farm who had to pay half of its produce in rent).

It may also be a nickname from Slovenian polič Croatian and Serbian polić, a term denoting a kind of jug-like drinking vessel containing half the standard measure of cubic capacity.

Americanized or Italianized form of Croatian Polić: patronymic from the personal name Polo, an equivalent of Pavao (see Paul) used under Italian (Venetian) influence.

Americanized form of Slovenian Polič: possibly also a metronymic from a short form of the personal name Apolonija, Latin Apollonia.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a distiller derived from an East Slavic word meaning ‘to burn’ (Russian palyt, Ukrainian palyty).