Polar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/polaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Polar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 292K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 366K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Polar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Polar | 57 |
| US United States | 275 | 1 in 1.2M | 401 | Polar | 61 |
| PH Philippines | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 410K | — | Polar | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Polar | 17 |
| PL Poland | 85 | 1 in 450K | 45 | — | — |
| VE Venezuela | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 449K | — | Polar | 13 |
| CL Chile | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 292K | — | Polar | 14 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 366K | — | Polar | 11 |
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 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Polar 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 Swedish, present indicative of pola
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, fleece, polar fleece
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, detective novel
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)
- Juan Manuel Polar y Carasasb. 1809PEPeruvian politician (1809-1881)
- Giovanni Polarb. 1825CHSwiss politician (1825-1868)
- Ignazio Polarb. 1837CHSwiss politician (1837-1900)
- Jorge Polarb. 1856PEPeruvian politician
- Giovanni Polarb. 1868CHSwiss politician (1868-1941)
- Mario Polar Ugartecheb. 1912PEPeruvian politician and writer (1912-1988)
- Antonio Cornejo Polarb. 1936PEPeruvian academic (1936–1997)
- Hernando de Sotob. 1941PEnot in their usual namePeruvian economist
- Álvaro de Sotob. 1943PEnot in their usual namePeruvian diplomat
- Andy Polarb. 1997PEPeruvian association football player
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 401 | #55,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 320 | #59,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 275 | #71,042 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 45 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 45 | #54,162 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 40 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 40 | #58,088 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Polar mean, and where does it come from?
- Of or having a pole or polarity, as: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Polar?
- A machine transcription gives /polaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Polar?
- In the etymology graph, Polo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Polar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Polar in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled polar.
- How common is the name Polar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275 people named Polar in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Polar?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/polarThe 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, “Polar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.