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The POLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,854 4185 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 2,531 2395 0.005 51
Change since 1880 +5323 -1790 -0.002 -22
Other Countries
Australia 209 7268 0.001 13
United Kingdom 788 6333 0.002 17
Top States for POLAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 733 1920 0.006 65
California 446 6396 0.001 13
Texas 391 5332 0.002 19
Maine 383 679 0.030 300
Florida 374 5428 0.002 23
Top States for POLAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 383 679 0.030 300
Rhode Island 95 1743 0.009 91
West Virginia 146 1803 0.008 81
Alaska 46 1892 0.007 73
Ohio 733 1920 0.006 65

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

Classification and Origin of POLAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the POLAND surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the POLAND surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of POLAND in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 296 3.77
White (Hispanic) 127 1.62
Mixed Race 112 1.43
Asian/Pacific 56 0.71
Native American/Alaskan 39 0.5
White (Caucasian) 7,224 91.98

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

Meaning of POLAND in historical publications

POLAND. From the country.

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 POLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POLAND.

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 POLAND

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