Poè
surname · Latin script
Poè is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A nickname from Old Norse pái (“peacock”). This surname is also well established in Ireland.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 7.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 14K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Poè itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 436 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
23,563 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Poe in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A nickname from Old Norse pái (“peacock”). This surname is also well established in Ireland.
Sources 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poè counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 23,563 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Poe | 436 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Poe | 85 |
| KP North Korea | #506 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Poe | 2 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Poe | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 59 | Poe | 82 |
| SG Singapore | #595 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Poe | 43 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Poe | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Poe | 30 |
23,563 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Poè mean, and where does it come from?
- A nickname from Old Norse pái (“peacock”). This surname is also well established in Ireland. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Poè have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Poè, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poe.
- How common is the name Poè?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,563 people named Poè in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Poè compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Poè is the 506th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/po%C3%A8The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Poè” — the 506th most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.