Pounds
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Different form of Pound
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/paʊndz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pounds is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 49K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 63K
- GHGhana≈1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
6,838 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Different form of Pound.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pounds 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 | 6,838 | 1 in 49K | 6.8K | Pounds | 331 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Pounds | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 645 | Pounds | 100 |
| GH Ghana | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Pounds | 10 |
| EG Egypt | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Pounds | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Pounds | 21 |
| SG Singapore | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Pounds | 3 |
6,838 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; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pounds is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kr, (from J^, libra). — Captain Clapperton remarks
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
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)
- Caroline Poundsb. 1840IEIrish botanical painter in Australia
- Louie Poundsb. 1872GBBritish opera singer and actress (1872–1970)
- Norman Poundsb. 1912GBEnglish geographer and historian
- Ken Poundsb. 1934GBBritish physicist
- Larry Poundsb. 1953USAmerican-Finnish basketball player
- Darryl Poundsb. 1972USAmerican football player
- Dionne Poundsb. 1984FIFinnish basketball player (born 1984)
- Michael Poundsb. 1988FIFinnish basketball player (born 1988)
- Anissa Poundsb. 1992FIFinnish basketball player (born 1992)
- Joel G. PoundsUSresearcher
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.8K | #5,121 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.6K | #4,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.5K | #5,210 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 645 | #9,314 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Pounds mean, and where does it come from?
- Different form of Pound. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Pounds?
- A machine transcription gives /paʊndz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pounds have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Pounds, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pounds.
- How common is the name Pounds?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,838 people named Pounds in 2010, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
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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, “Pounds”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.