Police

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Police is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand
  • AUAustralia
  • FRFrance

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.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
138 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Police counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Police is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—476Police137
AU Australia——Police23
FR France—56Police138
GB United Kingdom—5Police15
NZ New Zealand——Police4
IN India—192—17
BR Brazil—110——

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 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)

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

  • Arabic name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iraq, Qatar

    Also written Poliçe

44 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)

Police 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 English, A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, Police (a town in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, policy (an insurance contract)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Slovak, genitive singular of polica

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In frm, governance; management

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, shelf (a structure)

    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)

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 20 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Police
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020476#47,959
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000423#47,210
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010386#53,538
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—192#18,252
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—110#58,969
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—110#21,407
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195198—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196182—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198177—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194173—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193168—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192160—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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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, “Police”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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