Pól
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/poʊɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pól is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Paulus, perhaps via Anglo-Norman Pol and/or English Paul.
- USUnited States1 in 254K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 15Kas Poel
- ESSpain1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pól itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
2,519 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Poel in ES Spain, NL Netherlands, IN India and 3 more and Pol in US United States.
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)
- LatinPaulus(measured from records)
- Anglo-Norman Poland/or(measured from records)
From Latin Paulus, perhaps via Anglo-Norman Pol and/or English Paul.
Sources 2
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pól 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,519 | 1 in 20K | 24K | Poel | 87 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,785 | 1 in 21K | 903 | Poel | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,312 | 1 in 254K | 1.6K | Pol | 238 |
| IN India | — | 1,224 | 1 in 1.1M | 1.2K | Poel | 70 |
| NL Netherlands | #256 | 1,188as Poel | 1 in 15K | 1.2K | Poel | 118 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Poel | 22 |
| BE Belgium | — | 268as Poel | 1 in 44K | 268 | Poel | 79 |
2,519 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling pol. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Pól 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 Faroese, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Paul
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite accusative singular of póll
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, pole (extreme of an axis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, genitive plural of pole
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, Paul of Tarsus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-ocs, half
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)
- Pól Ó Foighilb. 1928IEIrish politician
- Pól Brennanb. 1956IEIrish singer
- Pól Skarðennib. 1962Faroese painter
- Pól Fríðrikur Joensenb. 1967Faroese association football player (1967-)
- Pól Thorsteinssonb. 1973FODanish footballer
- Pól Jóhannus Justinussenb. 1989FOFaroese footballer
- Pól CallaghanGBIrish politician
- Pól Ó GriofaIEactor from Ireland
- Pól Mac DonnchaIEIrish radio broadcaster
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 6 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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 Pól mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Paulus, perhaps via Anglo-Norman Pol and/or English Paul. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Pól?
- A machine transcription gives /poʊɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Pól a male or female name?
- Pól is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Pól?
- In the etymology graph, Paul, Pablo and Paolo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pól have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Pól, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poel.
- Where is Pól most common?
- Pól is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pól?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,519 people named Pól, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Pól compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Pól is the 256th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%B3lThe 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, “Pól” — the 256th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.