Pola

given name · Polish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pola is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Polish and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: forma feminina de Polo.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 716◐
  • ISIceland1 in 6.9K
  • SESweden1 in 60K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈55K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
84 ●

1.1K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 716 ◐

Poland

Meaning & origin●

forma feminina de Polo

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Pola is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#18753,478△785 rec.1 in 71653KPola84
US United States—664△207 rec.1 in 501K797Pola57
SE Sweden—169△1 rec.1 in 60K169—3
DK Denmark—60—1 in 98K60——
ES Spain—59△11 rec.1 in 848K955Pola8
BR Brazil—57—1 in 3.7M857——
IS Iceland—51—1 in 6.9K51——
GB United Kingdom—3022 rec.—6Pola17
FI Finland—15—1 in 371K69——
NL Netherlands—115 rec.—10Pola6
LV Latvia—6—1 in 314K6——
IN India——1 rec.—2.1K—2

Roughly 53K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 716). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Polish233K79%
  • Hindi20K7%
  • Marathi10K4%
  • Spanish9.3K3%
  • English6.1K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish232,93779%
Hindi20,2637%
Marathi10,2944%
Spanish9,2643%
English6,0572%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Pola is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name34K records spelled Pola4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Pôla, Polã

  • English given name15K records spelled Pola24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, India

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Poela, Pöla, Pora, Póra, Porà

  • Marathi given name10K records spelled Pola2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Poḷa

  • Hindi given name6.3K records spelled Pola132 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, English

    Also written Pala, Palei, Poly, Palai, Pole

  • a separate given name4.1K records spelled Pola7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Póla, Polā, Pōḷa, Polá, Poḷa

  • Hindi given name2.9K records spelled Pola12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, France, Pakistan, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, French, Urdu

    Also written Pora, Pôla, Porà, Porä, Polà

53 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●

Pola 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 German, weibl. Vom., polnische Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In men, andwintr., to spring, as a trap; to mistake, to miss the mark. O ngi bola, Oh, I have made a mistake!

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In Kurdish, Steel, unshakeable, unbending, durable strength

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In Esperanto, Polish (of or pertaining to Poland, the Polish people, or the Polish language)

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

  • In Finnish, A buoyant mark put on a fishing net or similar non-moving fishing equipment.

    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.

Over time●

05010015020019201940196019802000200 · 1968

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Pola in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1914–2017
Yearrecords
19141
19151
19161
19189
19192
19202
19215
19223
19238
19244
19253
19264
19276
192823
19296
19307
193111
193210
193341
193414
193532
193622
193715
193836
193912
194033
194130
194228
194360
194431
194537
194638
194730
194884
194937
195037
195150
195240
1953123
195445
195552
195664
195763
1958160
195965
196075
1961108
196281
1963177
196481
196597
1966107
196787
1968200
196984
1970114
1971144
1972116
1973169
1974112
1975181
197688
1977114
1978154
1979130
1980195
1981164
1982193
1983132
1984109
1985102
1986114
1987135
1988138
1989175
1990161
1991159
1992114
1993152
1994152
1995130
199673
199780
199848
19991
20083
20094
20105
201121
201218
201326
20146
201542
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 94 years between 1914–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Pola Gauguin, b. 1883Pola Negri, b. 1897Pola Stout, b. 1902Pola Illéry, b. 1909Pola Nireńska, b. 1910Pola Alonso, b. 1923Pola Kinski, b. 1952Pola Brändle, b. 1980Pola Sieverding, b. 1981Pola Beck, b. 1982

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●

Attested in 68 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Pola
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—53K#93
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202653K#93
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)—2.2K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.1K#3,003
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—955#4,590
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—955#4,590
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—857#10,637
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020797#31,175
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020664#15,229
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000491#41,722
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010486#44,270
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—382#3,023

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 677 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pola?
We estimate roughly 55 thousand people bear Pola (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Pola have the most bearers?
We estimate about 53 thousand people bear Pola in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled pola.
Where is Pola most common?
Pola is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 716 people carrying it.
How common is Pola compared with other names?
In Poland, Pola is the 187th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
Is Pola a male or female name?
Pola is a female 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 does the name Pola mean?
Recorded meaning: forma feminina de Polo
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Pola” — the 187th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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