Pöls
loc · Latin script
Pöls is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from a place/landscape term; possibly a patronymic or genitive form, from pōl 'pool, marsh'; bearer count 17.
- BEBelgium1 in 8.5Kas Poels(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 14Kas Poels
- FIFinland≈1 in 397Kas Poels
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 Pöls 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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
1,377 named Poels, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium, as Poels
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Poels in BE Belgium, NL Netherlands, FR France and 3 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)
Toponymic surname from a place/landscape term; possibly a patronymic or genitive form, from pōl 'pool, marsh'; bearer count 17.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pöls 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 1,377as Poels | 1 in 8.5K | 1.4K | Poels | 59 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,226as Poels | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | Poels | 52 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | listed | Poels | 23 |
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 605K | 10 | Poels | 99 |
| DE Germany | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Poels | 46 |
| FI Finland | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 397K | — | Poels | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 1 |
1,377 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Pöls 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 Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of pöl
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pöls mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place/landscape term; possibly a patronymic or genitive form, from pōl 'pool, marsh'; bearer count 17. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Pöls have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Poels, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pöls most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Pöls itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Belgium's: the national register counts about 1 in 8.5 thousand people named Poels.
- How common is the name Pöls?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,377 people named Poels in 2008, about 1 in 8.5 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, “Pöls”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.