Poles Surname
Approximately 3,956 people bear this surname
Poles Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 1,157 | 1:52,858 | 9,503 |
| United States | 695 | 1:521,524 | 43,542 |
| Brazil | 471 | 1:454,510 | 17,246 |
| France | 461 | 1:144,084 | 22,250 |
| Egypt | 305 | 1:301,429 | 19,796 |
| Argentina | 132 | 1:323,814 | 25,647 |
| Slovenia | 122 | 1:20,391 | 4,581 |
| England | 105 | 1:530,648 | 33,151 |
| Spain | 98 | 1:477,062 | 24,404 |
| Czechia | 86 | 1:123,645 | 19,875 |
| Canada | 66 | 1:558,267 | 46,632 |
| Australia | 48 | 1:562,410 | 41,290 |
| Sweden | 41 | 1:240,165 | 16,652 |
| India | 25 | 1:30,682,615 | 377,978 |
| Germany | 24 | 1:3,354,394 | 150,996 |
| Hungary | 12 | 1:818,023 | 42,199 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 1:741,247 | 83,447 |
| Wales | 10 | 1:309,453 | 16,869 |
| Serbia | 10 | 1:714,495 | 24,752 |
| Netherlands | 9 | 1:1,876,353 | 85,467 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Ukraine | 7 | 1:6,503,242 | 257,739 |
| Philippines | 7 | 1:14,462,603 | 238,248 |
| Venezuela | 5 | 1:6,040,815 | 47,898 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Mexico | 3 | 1:41,375,402 | 71,397 |
| Croatia | 2 | 1:2,114,302 | 85,143 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 61 | 1:399,596 | 24,084 |
| Wales | 6 | 1:261,403 | 9,165 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 118 | 1:425,582 | 31,158 |
The alternate forms: Poleš (36), Poleś (26), Polès (4) & Pôles (2) are calculated separately.
Poles (308) may also be a first name.
Poles Demographics
Average Poles Salary in
United States
$39,639 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Poles Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Poles Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Poles (Marathi: पोलेस) occurs more in Italy more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Poleš, Poleś, Polès or Pôles. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Poles? popularity and diffusion
The last name Poles is the 116,515th most frequently held family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 1,842,150 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 54 percent of Poles live; 32 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 29 percent live in Italic Europe. It is also the 501,377th most frequently occurring given name worldwide, held by 308 people.
The surname Poles is most numerous in Italy, where it is borne by 1,157 people, or 1 in 52,858. In Italy Poles is most prevalent in: Veneto, where 53 percent reside, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where 39 percent reside and Lombardy, where 3 percent reside. Outside of Italy it is found in 50 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 18 percent reside and Brazil, where 12 percent reside.
Poles Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Poles has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 589 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 172 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it increased 167 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Poles Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Poles surname are 5.95% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 59.18% being registered with the party.
The amount Poles earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 52.96% less than the national average, earning €14,125 per year; in United States they earn 8.13% less than the national average, earning $39,639 USD per year and in Canada they earn 20.7% more than the national average, earning $59,968 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Poles Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Poles in the Marathi language | ||
| पोलेस | polesa | 83.33 |
| पॉलेस | polesa | 16.67 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Poles
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