The Polanco surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 19,688 people carried this name — #1,820 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 15,000 people counted. That is up 41% from 13,938 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Polanco surname
From Spanish, of toponymic origin.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Polanco» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 2,535 people named Polanco live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Córdoba.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
112 people named Polanco live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Polanco in American newspapers,
1859–1916.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 3,430 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Polanco,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gaspar Polanco 1816–1867 · politician -
Anselmo Polanco 1881–1939 · friar -
Jesús de Polanco 1929–2007 · businessperson
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped — Anselmo Polanco: Valdavia, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); the others are in the public domain or CC0 · 48 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Polanco,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States194 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 121
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 38
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 22
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 10
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Edward A. PolancoBorn 1925 in New York. Enlisted 1943 at New York City; shipping clerk from Bronx County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1944, buried at Long Island National Cemetery, New York.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Pietro PolancoArrived at New York in 1907 aboard the Kaiser W. der Grosse from Genoa and Naples, aged 23; bricklayer. From Modica, Ragusa, Italy; bound for New York.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Jose Ybarra PolancoBorn 1948; from Tucson, Arizona. U.S. Army, communications center specialist; died in an accident 1969 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
Showing 3 of 194 records for Polanco in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain).
France3 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Lucia PolancoBorn 1906 in Spain; died 1998 in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Claude Maurice PolancoBorn 1931 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine); died 2001 in Paris.
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Laura Edmonde Georgette PolancoBorn 1947 in Saint-Cloud (Yvelines); died 1984 in Eaubonne (Val-d'Oise).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Polanco.
- Poisson 1,822 · U.S. census
- Poitier 526 · U.S. census
- Pokorski 492 · U.S. census
- Pol 1,312 · U.S. census
- Polack 643 · U.S. census
- Polak 3,313 · U.S. census
- Poland 7,746 · U.S. census
- Polard 118 · U.S. census
- Polat 123 · U.S. census
- Poles 483 · U.S. census
- Polese 188 · U.S. census
- Polette 120 · U.S. census
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