Pola
loc · Latin script
Meaning: forma feminina de Polo
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pola is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland.
- PLPoland
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma feminina de Polo
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pola counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 53K | Pola | 84 |
| ES Spain | — | 955 | Pola | 7 |
| IN India | — | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 857 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 797 | — | 56 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Pola is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., polnische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In men, andwintr., to spring, as a trap; to mistake, to miss the mark. O ngi bola, Oh, I have made a mistake!
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Kurdish, Steel, unshakeable, unbending, durable strength
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Esperanto, Polish (of or pertaining to Poland, the Polish people, or the Polish language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, A buoyant mark put on a fishing net or similar non-moving fishing equipment.
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)
- Pola Gauguinb. 1883FRNorwegian painter and biographer (1883-1961)
- Pola Negrib. 1897PLPolish actress (1897-1987)
- Pola Stoutb. 1902UStextile designer (1902-1984)
- Pola Illéryb. 1909ROactress (1909–1993)
- Isa Polab. 1909ITItalian actress (1909-1984)
- Pola Nireńskab. 1910PLPolish dancer and choreographer (1910-1992)
- Arrigo Polab. 1919ITItalian opera singer (1919-1999)
- Pola Alonsob. 1923ARArgentine actress (1923–2004)
- Pola Kinskib. 1952DEGerman actress
- Pola Beckb. 1982DEGerman film director
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.1K | #3,003 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 955 | #4,590 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 955 | #4,590 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 857 | #10,637 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 797 | #31,175 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 491 | #41,722 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 486 | #44,270 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 129 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 125 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 125 | #24,639 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Pola mean, and where does it come from?
- forma feminina de Polo Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Pola have the most bearers?
- Pola is most frequently recorded in Poland, where it is most often spelled pola.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/polaThe 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, “Pola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.