Pour

org · Latin script

Meaning: To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it

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

/puʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pour is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium
  • CACanada
  • USUnited States

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.

Canada (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Pour is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CA Canada——Pour49
US United States—424Pour178
BE Belgium——Pour13
CZ Czechia—810—2
GB United Kingdom—52—79

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; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); 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)

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

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Pöûr, Poür, Poùr, Pòūr

54 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)

Pour is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, for (meant for, intended for)

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

  • In English, v., njéi-wu, yé and yél, pu, jundu, séndé

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In frm, for (indicates an intended aim or recipient)

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

  • In Romansh, peasant, farmer

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

  • In gsw, farmer

    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)

18001850190019502000Václav Pour, b. 1817Josef Pour, b. 1852Josef Pour, b. 1856Josef Pour, b. 1901Jiří Pour, b. 1927Vladimír Pour, b. 1927Milan Pour, b. 1965Shayesteh Ghader Pour, b. 1984Jakub Pour, b. 1999

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Pour
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—810#1,714
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—809#1,745
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020424#52,802
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010330#60,960
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000291#64,008
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200252#49,577
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

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 Pour mean, and where does it come from?
To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pour?
A machine transcription gives /puʁ/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Pour have the most bearers?
Pour is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled pour.

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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, “Pour”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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