Poly

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Poly is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 346Kas Polo
  • PLPoland1 in 716as Pola

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 Poly 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.

Poland (measured from records)

53,481 named Pola, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
115 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Bangladesh, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PalaLatin(measured from records)
పాలTelugu(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Poly 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 Poly is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—53,481as Pola1 in 71653K——
ES Spain—23,717as Pol1 in 2.1K24KPoly12
BD Bangladesh#557≈18,000 est.≈1 in 9.1KlistedPoly33
US United States—961as Polo1 in 346K4KPoly115
AL Albania—857as Pal1 in 3.6K857——
DK Denmark—581as Pil1 in 10K572——

53,481 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Brazil, United States, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Polý, Póly

  • Thai given name65 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos, Malaysia

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written พลอย, Ploy, แพลอย, 'พลอย, Ploi

  • Greek given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom

    Also written Πολυ, Πόλυ, Πολύ

43 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Poly is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Chinese, PolyU; Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, clipping of polytechnique

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Michel Poly, b. 1935Jean-Pierre Poly, b. 1941Regina Poly, b. 1942Natasha Poly, b. 1985

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Poly
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020126#38,650
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202072#38,650

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

How do you pronounce Poly?
A machine transcription gives /pɒli/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Poly a male or female name?
Poly 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 Poly have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Pola, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Poly?
In Poland, the national register counted 53,481 people named Pola in 2026, about 1 in 716 residents.
How common is Poly compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Poly is the 557th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Poly” — the 557th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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