Poula
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Poula is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Danish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Poul, equivalent to English Paula.
- DKDenmark1 in 25K◐
- ISIceland1 in 117K
- SESweden1 in 729K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈291 ●
- Sources
- 11 ●
- 1 in 25K ◐
across 5 countries
84 records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, masculine equivalent Poul, equivalent to English Paula
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 232 | — | 1 in 25K | 232 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | 35 | 6 rec. | — | — | Poula | 6 |
| US United States | 32 | 53 rec. | — | — | Poula | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 22△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 9.6M | 88 | Poula | 11 |
| AR Argentina | 22 | 0 rec. | — | — | Poula | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 20 | — | 1 in 864K | 20 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 14 | — | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 3 | — | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | — | — | 115 | — | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | 0 rec. | — | 48 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | 10 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | 1 rec. | — | 1 | — | 2 |
Roughly 232 people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 25K). 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●
- Danish1.3K39%
- Arabic1.1K34%
- English2859%
- Portuguese1404%
- Spanish853%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 1,266 | 39% |
| Arabic | 1,099 | 34% |
| English | 285 | 9% |
| Portuguese | 140 | 4% |
| Spanish | 85 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Poula 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 Galician, fallow; dry meadow
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●
- Bedřich Poulab. 1917CZCzech weightlifter, cyclist, referee and sports official, Olympic Order recipient
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 11 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Poula?
- We estimate roughly 291 people bear Poula (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Poula have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 232 people bear Poula in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Poula most common?
- Poula is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Poula a male or female name?
- Poula 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 Poula mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Poul, equivalent to English Paula
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About this data
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, “Poula”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.