When Justiniano de Jesus Polio was born about 1900, in Nueva Guadalupe, Lolotique, San Miguel, El Salvador, his father, Juan Adonay Polio, was 24 and his mother, Balbina Gomez, was 32. He died on 10 February 1948, in his hometown, at the age of 49.
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Hispanic (mainly El Salvador): perhaps a nickname from Spanish polio, a short form of poliomyelitis, desease that often causes paralysis, or from polio ‘felty germander’, a sub-shrub and herb native to the western Mediterranean region whose leaves are used in cooking and for medicine.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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