Poer
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpoʊɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Poer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Perhaps a reduced form of Dutch van Poer, probably a hypercorrection of van Poeyer.
- CACanada≈1 in 284K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 581K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 69Kas Por
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 Poer 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 284K (inferred from the name graph)
3,772 named פאר, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled For in US United States, CA Canada, HK Hong Kong, Foer in BR Brazil, ES Spain and Faer in IL Israel.
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)
Perhaps a reduced form of Dutch van Poer, probably a hypercorrection of van Poeyer.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 3,772as פאר | 1 in 2.3K | 3.8K | Faer | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 736as Por | 1 in 288K | 736 | Foer | 2 |
| FR France | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 44 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 573 | 1 in 581K | 597 | For | 189 |
| ES Spain | 427as Far | 1 in 117K | 427 | Foer | 24 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 284K | — | For | 59 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | For | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | 56as Por | 1 in 38K | 56 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 40as Far | 1 in 85K | 40 | — | — |
3,772 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017, counting the spelling פאר. 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 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Poer 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 frp, alternative form of povêr (“to be able to”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, spit, spittle, saliva
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, archaic form of pôr
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)
- Walter PoerPoer, Walter (fl. 1200–1237), administrator and justice
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 597 | #35,621 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 588 | #40,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 573 | #38,582 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22 | #183,107 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Poer mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps a reduced form of Dutch van Poer, probably a hypercorrection of van Poeyer. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Poer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpoʊɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Poer have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named פאר, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Poer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 573 people named Poer in 2010, about 1 in 581 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Poer?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poerThe 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, “Poer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.