Poos

surname · English · Latin script

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

Poos is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In French Southern Territories it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M◐
  • TFFrench Southern Territories1 in 42
  • NLNetherlands1 in 48K

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

≈910 ●

across 9 countries

Sources
103 ●

3.0K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 48K ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Po-Os in PH Philippines.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Poos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—644574 rec.——Poos55
NL Netherlands—359△138 rec.1 in 48K359Poos22
AR Argentina—222—1 in 205K222——
US United States—2011.8K rec.1 in 1.7M219Poos103
BE Belgium—88△10 rec.1 in 133K88Poos8
IT Italy—5454 rec.——Poos1
CA Canada—5346 rec.——Poos18
GB United Kingdom—4345 rec.——Poos10
TF French Southern Territories#229179 rec.——Poos1
TR Türkiye—2525 rec.——Poos1
AU Australia—2022 rec.——Poos10
ES Spain—1415 rec.1 in 3.6M14Poos3

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

Languages●

  • English2.1K33%
  • Spanish1.5K23%
  • German87214%
  • French71111%
  • Western Frisian3596%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,08733%
Spanish1,49223%
German87214%
French71111%
Western Frisian3596%

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◐

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

  • Spanish surname1.5K records spelled Poos4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Venezuela, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Poós

  • French surname745 records spelled Poos3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Poós

  • a separate surname105 records spelled Poos2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Poós

  • Hindi surname99 records spelled Poos3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Poós

  • Hungarian surname68 records spelled Poos4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States

    Also written Poós, Poòs, Póos

  • Estonian surname38 records spelled Poos3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States

    Also written Pooš

27 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●

Poos is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, undefined period of time, an indefinite period

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

  • In pdt, feather, quill

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

  • In kw, heavy

    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●

01020301900192019401960198029 · 1971

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Poos in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18916
19016
19114
192116
19316
194115
195123
196110
197129
198117
199114

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Hary Poos, b. 1896Victor Poos, b. 1920Heinrich Poos, b. 1928Jacques Poos, b. 1935Camille Poos, b. 1950Françoise Poos, b. 1964Christian Poos, b. 1977

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 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Poos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007359#5,632
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—222—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000219#80,502
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010201#91,625
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020188#102,164
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200888#17,227
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—34#11,378
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195123—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—22#73,415
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198117—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192116—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 28 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Poos?
We estimate roughly 910 people bear Poos (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Poos have the most bearers?
Poos is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled poos.
How common is Poos compared with other names?
In French Southern Territories, Poos is the 2nd most common surname of 2 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Poos” — the 2nd most common surname in French Southern Territories. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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