Pulver Family History
Pulver Name Meaning
German Swiss German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German pulver ‘ash dust’ (of Latin origin) German Pulver ‘powder’; a metonymic occupational name for an apothecary or herbalist who dispensed various types of medicinal powder. From the 15th century it may alternatively have denoted a manufacturer of gunpowder. Possibly also a shortened form of Flemish Van Pulver: habitational name for someone from a place called Pulver (meaning ‘dust’; compare 1 above) for example in Wormhout in West Flanders.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022