Poka
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/poʊkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Poka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2.9Mas Paak(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
- ITItaly≈1 in 389K
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 Poka 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)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
10,846 named Pak, 2010
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poka 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 | 10,846as Pak | 1 in 31K | 11K | Poka | 11 |
| PL Poland | 575as Pak | 1 in 67K | 305 | — | — |
| IN India | 463as Paak | 1 in 2.9M | 463 | Poka | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | 405as Pak | 1 in 43K | 405 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 389K | listed | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 87as Pak | 1 in 24K | 87 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | 31 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 2as Pak | 1 in 51K | 2 | — | — |
10,846 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling pak. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Poka is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, frame (of a window, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, little, few, not many.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Misspelling of polka.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to bag (put in a bag)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mqy, fell, cut, chop down
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mqy, to fell, chop down
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 403 | #8,411 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 170 | #19,849 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #129,625 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #168,215 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,294 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,429 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Poka?
- A machine transcription gives /poʊkə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Poka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Pak, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Poka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,846 people named Pak in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pokaThe 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, “Poka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.