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The POLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 447 45149 0 2
United States (1880 census) 118 28213 0 2
Change since 1880 +329 -16936 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 39 31035 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POLES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 70 10723 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 69 19835 0.001 6
New Jersey 43 21711 0.001 5
New York 43 39263 0.000 2
Virginia 39 14548 0.001 6
Top States for POLES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 10 5410 0.002 17
Delaware 11 11491 0.001 14
Massachusetts 70 10723 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 69 19835 0.001 6
Virginia 39 14548 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of POLES

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

Ethnic distribution of POLES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 232 51.9
White (Caucasian) 185 41.39
White (Hispanic) 11 2.46
Mixed Race 10 2.24
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of POLES in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of POLES.

Similar names to POLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POLES.

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 POLES

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