Poór

Name: Poór: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Poór is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,303 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w.

HUHungary≈1 in 10Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
SKSlovakia≈1 in 63Kfew records
GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 83K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: United States (measured from records)
Record sources: 280 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Poor

Locally spelled Poor in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 1 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

Poór

Middle Englishpovre(measured from records)
OldFrenchand Anglo-Norman(measured from records)
Latinpauper(measured from records)
Old Latin*pavo-pars“getting little”(measured from records)
Proto-Indo-European*peh₂w-“few“few, small”(measured from records)
Old Englishunlǣde(measured from records)
Old Englishun-(measured from records)

Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).

Cited for this meaning 3

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Wiktionary
Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Poór is found

Poór 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 Poór is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	—	3,303	1 in 101K	3.3K	Poor	280
HU Hungary	#943	≈950 est.	≈1 in 10K	—	Poór	37
GB United Kingdom	—	≈830 est.	≈1 in 83K	150	Poor	71
CA Canada	—	≈380 est.	≈1 in 107K	—	Poor	29
AU Australia	—	≈210 est.	≈1 in 127K	—	Poor	44
SK Slovakia	—	≈87 est.	≈1 in 63K	—	Poór	12
NO Norway	—	56	1 in 98K	56	—	8

3,303 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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

Poór is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Poor
Romanian surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Poor
Estonian surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Estonia, United States, Finland
Languages: Estonian, Finnish
Also written Pöör, Poor
a separate surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, India, Iran, United Kingdom
Also written Poor, Pôör
Croatian surname8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Türkiye
Languages: Croatian, Serbian
Also written Poor, Поор

6 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

Lili Poórb. 1886RO(1886–1962) Hungarian actress
Péter Poórb. 1944HUHungarian singer
Patrik Poórb. 1993HUHungarian association football player

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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Poór under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Poór mean, and where does it come from?: Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Poór?: In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Poór, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poor. After it come Hungary, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Poór?: In the United States, the national register counted 3,303 people named Poór in 2010, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
How common is Poór compared with other names?: In Hungary, Poór is the 943rd most common surname of 88,284 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 2026-10-13 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, “Poór” — ranked 9129th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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