Polen
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Polen is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin pollen.
- IDIndonesia
- DEGermany
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin pollen.
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Polen 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | — | Polen | 14 |
| DE Germany | — | — | Polen | 37 |
| US United States | — | 2.6K | — | 277 |
| IN India | — | 609 | — | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 73 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 47 | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 37 | — | 37 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Polen 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 German, Poland
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Indonesian, pollen: A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, pollen (fine granular substance produced in flowers)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of pulir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, Poland (a country in Central Europe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, POLÉN, (rar) polenuri, s. n. (Bot.) Pulbere, de obicei galbenă, constituită din grăuncioare microscopice produse de anterele staminelor.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Rietrikki Polénb. 1823FIFinnish journalist
- Nat Polenb. 1914USAmerican actor (1914-1981)
- Doug Polenb. 1960USAmerican motorcycle racer
- Bruce Polenb. 1982USAmerican football player and coach (born 1951)
- Polen Uslupehlivanb. 1990TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1990)
- Polen Emreb. 1991TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1991)
- Polen Ünlüb. 1995TRTurkish attack victim
- Tino Polenb. 2000DEresearcher
- Beren Polen Hökeb. 2006TRTurkish basketball player (born 2006)
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #12,088 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,724 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 609 | #7,956 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #79,953 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 47 | #27,282 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 37 | #36,901 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #9,541 |
| 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Polen mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin pollen. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Polen have the most bearers?
- Polen is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled polen.
What do you want to know about Polen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/polenThe 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, “Polen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.