Poma
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Poma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 305(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1K
- ECEcuador1 in 2.5K
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 305 (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poma 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.
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; the xinhua-italian-manual 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Poma 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 Akan, ok wan), pt*. 998, 1014, — ^. distorted, perverted, dishonest (nne
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In men, corpse, dead body of any kind. Poma gana, n., coffin
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pōmum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wuv, seaweed used to paint canoes
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In dob, to smear; white paint
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Akan, walking stick
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)
- Felipe Huaman Puma de Ayalab. 1534PEnot in their usual nameIncan scholar and noble
- Silvio Pomab. 1840ITItalian painter (1840-1932)
- Cesare Pomab. 1862ITItalian diplomat, numismatist and historian
- Rodolphe Pomab. 1885BEBelgian rower (1885–1954)
- Antonio Pomab. 1910ITItalian Roman Catholic cardinal (1910–1985)
- Karel Pomab. 1920BEBelgian politician (1920-2014)
- Vito Pomab. 1952ITItalian poet and librarian
- Vittorio Pomab. 1958ITItalian politician
- Sebastiano Pomab. 1993ITItalian baseball player
- Pothin Pomab. 1997FRTahitian footballer
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- In which country does Poma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Poma in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poma.
- How common is the name Poma?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 6,752 people named Poma in 2024, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Poma compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Poma is the 18th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pomaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Poma” — the 18th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.