Poehl
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpoʊɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Poehl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Germany it is the 87th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.1Kas Pohl(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 4.3Kas Paul
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 12Kas Paulos
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 Poehl 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- 1 in 363 (inferred from the name graph)
78,256 named Paul, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana, as Paul
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pohl in US United States, DE Germany, ES Spain and 1 more, Paul in IN India, Pavlos in BE Belgium and ጳውሎስ in ET Ethiopia.
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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poehl 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 | — | 78,256as Paul | 1 in 4.3K | 906K | Pohl | 334 |
| DE Germany | #87 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Pohl | 210 |
| IN India | — | 21,842as Paul | 1 in 61K | 22K | Paul | 18 |
| ET Ethiopia | #521 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | ጳውሎስ | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,519as Pol | 1 in 20K | 24K | Pohl | 20 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2,066as Paul | 1 in 363 | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,902as Paulus | 1 in 6.2K | 1.9K | Pavlos | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 797as Paul | 1 in 11K | 797 | Pohl | 35 |
78,256 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling paul. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 237 | #80,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 222 | #79,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 200 | #97,359 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Poehl?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpoʊɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Poehl have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 78 thousand people named Paul, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Poehl most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Poehl itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 363 people named Paul.
- How common is the name Poehl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 78,256 people named Paul in 2010, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Poehl compared with other names?
- In Germany, Poehl is the 87th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Poehl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poehlThe 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, “Poehl” — the 87th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.