Poé

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Poé is a given name 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.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 136K
  • NONorway1 in 249K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

23,563 people, 2010

Sources
26 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Poe in US United States, TL Timor-Leste.

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 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Poé 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.

Where Poé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—23,5631 in 14K24KPoe26
BR Brazil—1351 in 1.6M135—1
FI Finland—411 in 136K42—1
NO Norway—221 in 249K22—1
IN India—171 in 78M17—2
CR Costa Rica—91 in 566K9——
TL Timor-Leste#538———Poe1

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Poé is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname65 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Khmer

    Also written Poe, Po, Pö, Boe, 푀

  • Hindi given name182 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: Hindi, English, Bangla

    Also written Kashinath, Hopper, Kasinath, เปอร์, Phoe

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Italian

    Also written Poe, Póe

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Poé 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.
Is Poé a male or female name?
Poé is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Poé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Poé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poe.
Where is Poé most common?
Poé is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Poé?
In the United States, the national register counted 23,563 people named Poé in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Poé compared with other names?
In Timor-Leste, Poé is the 538th most common surname of 2,973 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Poé” — the 538th most common surname in Timor-Leste. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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