Pobre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: poor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pəbɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pobre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 314K
- AOAngola≈1 in 337K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
poor
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pobre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Pobre | 33 |
| US United States | 175 | 1 in 1.9M | 203 | Pobre | 53 |
| CO Colombia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Pobre | 21 |
| AO Angola | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 337K | — | Pobre | 4 |
| ES Spain | 77 | 1 in 650K | 77 | Pobre | 37 |
| CL Chile | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 520K | — | Pobre | 2 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Pobre 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 Spanish, poor (pitiable, pitiful)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, poor (lacking resources)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, poor; impoverished
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 203 | #96,193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 175 | #102,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147 | #111,119 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 77 | #33,041 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 77 | #32,979 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Pobre mean, and where does it come from?
- poor Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Pobre?
- A machine transcription gives /pəbɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pobre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Pobre in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pobre.
- How common is the name Pobre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 175 people named Pobre in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pobreThe 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, “Pobre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.