The second child and only son of Ponto Baggins and Mimosa Bunce. In his turn, Polo also had a son and a daughter, and through them he founded a populous branch of the Baggins family (though none of his descendants played a significant part in the tales of the War of the Ring). Most of these descendants came through his son Posco Baggins, while his daughter Prisca married into the Bolger family.
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No record exists of Polo's dates, but he was born into a generation with birthdates in the 2840's to 2860's of the Third Age. We know he lived until at least III 2906 because his youngest daughter Prisca was born in that year. If he lived out a typical Hobbit lifespan, Polo probably survived until about III 2950.
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Tolkien presumably chose the name for its phonetic closeness to many other Baggins names (indeed he specifically says in Appendix F II to The Lord of the Rings that the name had no specific meaning). As the English name for a game, polo comes from a Tibetan word meaning 'ball'. This derivation seems to be a simple coincidence, but it does mirror the associations with roundness and fatness found in many Hobbit names throughout the Shire.
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