Poitras
surname · Latin script
Meaning: altération de Poidras, dérivé probable du breton poder « potier »
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Poitras is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 210K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
- PLPoland1 in 7.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 210K (inferred from the name graph)
1,584 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)altération de Poidras, dérivé probable du breton poder « potier ».
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where the surname Poitras is found
(measured from records)Poitras 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 | 1,584 | 1 in 210K | 1.6K | Poitras | 52 |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Poitras | 65 |
1,584 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jane Ash Poitrasb. 1951CACanadian artist (born 1951)
- Laura Poitrasb. 1964USAmerican documentary film director and producer (born 1964)
- Gilles PoitrasCAauthor of books relating to anime and manga
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Poitras mean?
- Recorded meaning: altération de Poidras, dérivé probable du breton poder « potier ».
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Poitras?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Poitras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poitras. After it come Belgium, Poland and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Poitras most common?
- Poitras is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 210 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Poitras?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,584 people named Poitras in 2010, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poitrasThe 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, “Poitras”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.