Polanco

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a locality in Cantabria, Spain

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

/polanko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Polanco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 168(inferred from the name graph)
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 1.1K
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.3K

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.

Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)

≈62,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
333 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 168 (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PolancoLatin(measured from records)
פולנקוHebrew(measured from records)

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 locality in Cantabria, Spain

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Polanco 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 Polanco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DO Dominican Republic#17≈62,000 est.≈1 in 168—Polanco100
VE Venezuela#228≈22,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Polanco65
US United States—19,6881 in 17K22KPolanco333
CO Colombia#547≈9,400 est.≈1 in 5.2K4Polanco112
NI Nicaragua#151≈5,400 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Polanco22
SV El Salvador#201≈5,200 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Polanco40
CL Chile#527≈4,400 est.≈1 in 4.2K1Polanco88

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates 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).

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

Polanco is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pölancö, Polänco, Pölänċö

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Also written Pöläncő

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Peru, Spain

    Also written Pölänčö

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Поланко, Polanko

41 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)

1850190019502000Eduardo Sáenz de Buruaga, b. 1893Jesús de Polanco, b. 1929Percy Olivares, b. 1968Plácido Polanco, b. 1975Dascha Polanco, b. 1982Amelia Vega, b. 1984Gregory Polanco, b. 1991Domingo Germán, b. 1992Jorge Polanco, b. 1993Enyel De Los Santos, b. 1995

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Polanco,Dear Polanco, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Polanco,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Polanco
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202022K#1,583
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201020K#1,820
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200014K#2,383
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—4#112
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Polanco mean, and where does it come from?
a locality in Cantabria, Spain Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Polanco?
A machine transcription gives /polanko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Polanco have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Polanco in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled polanco.
How common is the name Polanco?
In the United States, the national register counted 19,688 people named Polanco in 2010, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Polanco compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Polanco is the 17th most common surname of 26,844 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, “Polanco” — the 17th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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