Pokas

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/poka˨˦s̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pokas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
  • PLPoland1 in 2.4M

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

344 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PokasLatin(measured from records)
ПокасCyrillic(measured from records)

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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pokas 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.

Where Pokas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia3441 in 12K344Pokas30
US United States≈35 est.≈1 in 9.6M—Pokas6
PL Poland161 in 2.4M13——
CH Switzerland81 in 1.1M8——
RS Serbia———Pokas2

344 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pokas is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Покась, Покас

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pokas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mrw, disjoin, disengage

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Latvian, Bakas

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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)

FormalPoštovani Pokas,Dear Pokas, (English)
InformalPoštovani Pokas,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Pokas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021344#2,264
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021316—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202613—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—13#116,789
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#283,623

Reference works 2

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 Pokas?
A machine transcription gives /poka˨˦s̪/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Pokas have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 344 people named Pokas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pokas.
Where is Pokas most common?
Pokas is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pokas?
In Croatia, the national register counted 344 people named Pokas in 2021, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.

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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, “Pokas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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