Pole
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pol/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Pole is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Pole is also written పాల in Telugu.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 716as Pola
- ESSpain1 in 2.1Kas Pol
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 Pole itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
53,481 named Pola, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pole in other scripts: Latin and Telugu
(measured from records)Locally spelled Poly in ES Spain, US United States, BD Bangladesh and Pala in IN India.
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.
How to pronounce Pole
- English:/pol/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pole 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 53,481as Pola | 1 in 716 | 53K | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | #557 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Poly | 33 |
| IN India | — | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 1.1M | Pala | 104 |
| ES Spain | — | 23,717as Pol | 1 in 2.1K | 24K | Poly | 12 |
| US United States | — | 961as Polo | 1 in 346K | 4K | Poly | 115 |
| AL Albania | — | 857as Pal | 1 in 3.6K | 857 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 581as Pil | 1 in 10K | 572 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 3.1K | — | 4 |
53,481 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Pole 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 English, inhabitant of Poland
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Russian, "field."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Afrikaans, Poland (a country in Central Europe; capital and largest city: Warskou)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In szl, field (open earth, especially for cultivation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hrx, Poland (a country in Central Europe)
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)- William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolkb. 1396GB15th-century English noble
- Margaret Poleb. 1473GBEnglish peeress, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (1473-1541)
- Reginald Poleb. 1500GBEnglish cardinal, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
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)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pole mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pole?
- In English /pol/ (Wiktionary).
- How common is the name Pole?
- In Poland, the national register counted 53,481 people named Pola in 2026, about 1 in 716 residents.
- How common is Pole compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Pole is the 557th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
- Which countries have the most people named Pole?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Pola, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, India, Spain and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
What do you want to know about Pole?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poleThe 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, “Pole” — ranked 93rd in Poland (dane.gov.pl). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.