Polack
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A Pole, or person of Polish descent
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/poʊlɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Polack is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 143K
- NLNetherlands1 in 368K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
643 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
alternative spelling of Polak (Polack, person of Polish descent)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Polack is read(measured from records)
Polack is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English58%
A Pole, or person of Polish descent.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Polack in Spanish.
- French6.4%
alternative spelling of Polak (Polack, person of Polish descent)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Polack in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Polack 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 643 | 1 in 517K | 643 | Polack | 30 |
| BR Brazil | 171 | 1 in 1.2M | 171 | Polack | 29 |
| AR Argentina | 92 | 1 in 494K | 92 | Polack | 34 |
| NL Netherlands | 47 | 1 in 368K | 47 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 41 | 1 in 143K | 41 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
643 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Polack 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 Swedish, a (male) Pole (person from Poland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, superseded spelling of pólack
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hrx, Pole, Polack
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)
- Jan Polackb. 1440PLPolish artist (1435-1519)
- Joel Samuel Polackb. 1807GBNew Zealand-American businessman (1807-1882)
- Siegfried Polackb. 1899PLGerman politician (1899-1944)
- Israel Polackb. 1909CLbusinessman
- Luis Sánchez Polackb. 1926ESSpanish actor and humorist (1926-1999)
- Jean-Claude Polackb. 1936FRFrench psychiatrist
- Heidrun Polackb. 1945DEactress
- Gillian Polackb. 1961AUAustralian writer
- Steven Polackb. 1961FIEnglish footballer (born 1961)
- Stéphanie Polackb. 1977FRFrance writer
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 643 | #35,057 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 635 | #37,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 619 | #34,599 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 171 | #41,767 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 92 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 47 | #32,149 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 41 | #12,689 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Where does the name Polack come from?
- alternative spelling of Polak (Polack, person of Polish descent) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Polack?
- In the etymology graph, Pollock, Pollack and Polock are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Polack?
- A machine transcription gives /poʊlɑk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Polack mean?
- In English, A Pole, or person of Polish descent.
- In which country does Polack have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 643 people named Polack, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled polack.
- Where is Polack most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Polack is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Polack?
- In the United States, the national register counted 643 people named Polack in 2010, about 1 in 517 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Polack?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/polackThe 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, “Polack”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.