Pollino
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ass, donkey, especially a young and untamed one
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/poʎino/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Pollino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 494K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 765K
- ESSpain1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 494K (inferred from the name graph)
435 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ass, donkey, especially a young and untamed one
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pollino 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 435 | 1 in 765K | 449 | Pollino | 17 |
| ES Spain | 44 | 1 in 1.1M | 44 | Pollino | 16 |
| AR Argentina | 17 | 1 in 2.7M | 17 | Pollino | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
435 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)Pollino 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 Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of pollinar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, chicken, poultry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( AN-ilzarb ap. Bon-Ond 142 ). Pollino, cría de asno. Eseririk astaña baten gañan eta bere pollinoan. Samper Mt 21, 5. Asto txikina, beti pollino. ZMoso 63. pollina ( AN-ilzarb ap. Bon-Ond 142 ) . (Forma de femenino). Pollina.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Emiliano Pollinob. 1947ITphysicist (1947-)
- Maurizio PollinoITresearcher
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 449 | #50,348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 449 | #44,997 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 435 | #48,530 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 44 | #48,584 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 44 | #48,409 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #282,989 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Pollino mean, and where does it come from?
- ass, donkey, especially a young and untamed one Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pollino?
- In Spanish /poʎino/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Pollino have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 435 people named Pollino, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pollino.
- Where is Pollino most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pollino is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 494 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pollino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 435 people named Pollino in 2010, about 1 in 765 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pollinoThe 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, “Pollino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.