Pomeroy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Pomeroy, a place-name in northeastern France, 'apple orchard'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɑmɝˌɔɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pomeroy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 32K
- USUnited States1 in 45K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
7,377 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
person from Pomeroy, a place-name in northeastern France, 'apple orchard'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pomeroy 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 | 7,377 | 1 in 45K | 7.4K | Pomeroy | 355 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 1.5K | Pomeroy | 139 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Pomeroy | 123 |
| EG Egypt | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Pomeroy | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Pomeroy | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Pomeroy | 40 |
| IE Ireland | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Pomeroy | 27 |
| IS Iceland | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Pomeroy | 1 |
| AX Åland Islands | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Pomeroy | 1 |
7,377 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pomeroy is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Polkinghorne Cornish: habitation name from a place in the parish of Gwinear, recorded in 1316 as Polkenhoern, from Corn, pol pool, pond + the OCorn. personal name Kenhoern (literally ‘Hound-Iron’). habitation name from any of the various places in NE
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, habitation name from any of the various places in NE
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, from La Pommeraye (Calvados); possibly also La Pommeraie (Seine-Inférieure) or Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraie (La Manche); first attested Ralph de Pomerai 1086 DB (Devon, Somerset)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Samuel C. Pomeroyb. 1816USAmerican politician (1816-1891)
- Theodore M. Pomeroyb. 1824USAmerican politician (1824-1905)
- Frederick William Pomeroyb. 1856GBEnglish sculptor (1856–1924)
- Jesse Pomeroyb. 1859USAmerican murderer (1859–1932)
- Roy Pomeroyb. 1892USspecial effects designer (1892-1947)
- Wardell Pomeroyb. 1913USpsychologist (1913–2001)
- Herb Pomeroyb. 1930USAmerican jazz trumpeter and teacher (1930–2007)
- John Pomeroyb. 1951USAmerican animator
- Earl Pomeroyb. 1952USAmerican politician
- Lorna Cookb. 1953USnot in their usual nameanimator
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.4K | #4,792 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.3K | #4,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7K | #4,902 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.5K | #4,698 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Pomeroy mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Pomeroy, a place-name in northeastern France, 'apple orchard'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Pomeroy?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɑmɝˌɔɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pomeroy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.4 thousand people named Pomeroy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pomeroy.
- How common is the name Pomeroy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,377 people named Pomeroy in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pomeroyThe 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, “Pomeroy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.