Poles
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variante dialetal setentrional, redução de Polese (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/polɛs/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Poles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 931 people, counted by IBGE.
- SISlovenia1 in 23K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 124K
- SESweden1 in 189K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
931 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Poles
- Spanish:/polɛs/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/puleʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variante dialetal setentrional, redução de Polese
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Poles is found
(measured from records)Poles 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 931 | 1 in 227K | 931 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Poles | 25 |
| US United States | 483 | 1 in 689K | 560 | Poles | 169 |
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 249K | 27 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 402K | 111 | Poles | 49 |
| SI Slovenia | 91 | 1 in 23K | 91 | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 86 | 1 in 124K | 86 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 54 | 1 in 189K | 54 | Poles | 9 |
931 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Poles 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 Galician, second-person singular present indicative of pulir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, polish: a substance used to polish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, for the, by the
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)- Leslie Poles Hartleyb. 1895GBBritish novelist and short story writer (1895–1972)
- Peter Polesb. 1978SISlovenian television personality
- Tanja PolesSIresearcher
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Poles?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /polɛs/; in Portuguese /puleʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Poles mean?
- Recorded meaning: variante dialetal setentrional, redução de Polese
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Poles?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 931 people named Poles, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Italy, United States, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Poles most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Poles is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Poles?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 931 people named Poles, about 1 in 227 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Poles?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/polesThe 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, “Poles” — ranked 9917th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.