Polla
surname · Latin script
Meaning: young hen, pullet
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/poʎa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Polla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 79K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 182K
- BRBrazil1 in 259K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
816 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)young hen, pullet
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Polla 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.
816 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)Polla is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, oriundo de Polla; de Forum Popilii ou de pulla ‘veio d’água’
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Icelandic, indefinite accusative singular of polli
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, present subjunctive analytic of poll
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, spring (source of water)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, pullet (young hen)
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)- Bartolomeo Pollab. 1621Roman Catholic archbishop
- César Pollab. 1831GBPortuguese actor (1831-1891)
- William C. Pollab. 1876USAmerican composer (1876-1939)
- Belo Pollab. 1917SKSlovak archivist and historian (1917–2000)
- Gerardus Pollab. 1948IDIndonesian writer
- Barbara Pollab. 1951CHSwiss doctor and writer
- Silvia Pollab. 1976ITItalian classical archaeologist and computational archaeologist
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 816 | #11,093 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 536 | #6,633 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 271 | #14,379 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 250 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 106 | #10,554 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 48 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Polla mean, and where does it come from?
- young hen, pullet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Polla?
- In the etymology graph, Poule is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Polla?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /poʎa/; in Portuguese /pollɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Polla have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 816 people named Polla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled polla.
- Where is Polla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Polla is densest in Finland — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Polla?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 816 people named Polla, about 1 in 259 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Polla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pollaThe 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, “Polla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.