Poula

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Poul, equivalent to English Paula

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 25K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 117K
  • SESweden1 in 729K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Denmark (measured from records)

232 people

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name, masculine equivalent Poul, equivalent to English Paula

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Poula 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 Poula is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark2321 in 25K232——
BR Brazil221 in 9.6M88—12
NL Netherlands201 in 864K20——
SE Sweden141 in 729K14——
IS Iceland31 in 117K3——

232 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Poula is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written PUla, Πουλά, Πουλα, Poulà

30 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)

Poula is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, fallow; dry meadow

    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)

  • Bedřich Poulab. 1917CZCzech weightlifter, cyclist, referee and sports official, Olympic Order recipient

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)

Informalمرحباً Poula،Hi Poula, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Poula
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—232#936
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—37#42,153
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202222—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—20#14,754
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—14#30,633
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—11#27,267
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20263—

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

What does the name Poula mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name, masculine equivalent Poul, equivalent to English Paula Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Poula?
A machine transcription gives /pəʊlə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
Is Poula a male or female name?
Poula is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Poula?
In the etymology graph, Poul is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Poula have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 232 people named Poula, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Poula most common?
Poula is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Poula?
In Denmark, the national register counted 232 people named Poula, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.

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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, “Poula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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