Polì
surname · Latin script
Polì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short form of Napoleon.
- BRBrazil1 in 26K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 28K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
8,144 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Poli in IT Italy, US United States, CH Switzerland and 1 more.
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)Short form of Napoleon.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Polì 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 | — | 8,144 | 1 in 26K | 8.1K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,025 | 1 in 164K | 2K | Poli | 110 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,613 | 1 in 28K | 1.6K | — | — |
| IN India | — | 802 | 1 in 1.7M | 802 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 280 | 1 in 30K | 280 | Poli | 23 |
| SE Sweden | — | 209 | 1 in 49K | 209 | Poli | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 67 | 1 in 51K | 67 | — | — |
| IT Italy | #374 | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | listed | Poli | 154 |
8,144 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Polì mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of Napoleon. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Polì have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 8.1 thousand people named Polì, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Polì most common?
- Polì is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Polì?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,144 people named Polì, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Polì compared with other names?
- In Italy, Polì is the 374th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pol%C3%ACThe 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, “Polì” — the 374th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.