The POLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	800	28166	0	3
United States (1880 census)	248	16466	0	5
Change since 1880	+552	-11700	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	267	5800	0.002	16
United Kingdom	1,022	5188	0.002	22

Top States for POLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	125	20282	0.000	4
Florida	77	22763	0.000	5
New York	77	25454	0.000	4
Illinois	61	23220	0.000	5
New Jersey	57	18422	0.001	7
Top States for POLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	57	18422	0.001	7
South Dakota	5	21231	0.001	7
Arizona	32	17342	0.001	6
Illinois	61	23220	0.000	5
Minnesota	24	32744	0.000	5

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of POLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the POLE 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 POLE 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 POLE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	522	65.25
Black/African American	160	20
Asian/Pacific	56	7
White (Hispanic)	28	3.5
Mixed Race	19	2.38
Native American/Alaskan	15	1.88

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

Similar names to POLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POLE.

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.