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The POL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,016 23350 0 4
United States (1880 census) 55 47052 0 1
Change since 1880 +961 +23702 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 63 21119 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 158 21882 0.001 10
California 92 48019 0.000 3
Ohio 85 29335 0.001 7
New York 75 48519 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 73 38997 0.001 6
Top States for POL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 7 23002 0.001 11
Florida 158 21882 0.001 10
Mississippi 27 12805 0.001 9
Connecticut 32 31410 0.001 9
Idaho 10 31734 0.001 8

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called POL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called POL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called POL in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a POL by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of POL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the POL surname.

Ethnic distribution of POL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 402 39.57
White (Hispanic) 368 36.22
Asian/Pacific 207 20.37
Mixed Race 21 2.07
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the POL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

POL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of POL in historical publications

SAINT POL. See St. Paul.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to POL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for POL

The following words are slight variants of POL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.