The Poles surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 483 people carried this name — #44,500 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 625,000 people counted. That is up 8% from 447 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 111 people named Poles.
31 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Côtes-d’Armor.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 111 people named Poles 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 Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
46 people named Poles is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Poles.
- Pokorski 492 · U.S. census
- Pol 1,312 · U.S. census
- Polack 643 · U.S. census
- Polak 3,313 · U.S. census
- Polard 118 · U.S. census
- Polat 123 · U.S. census
- Polese 188 · U.S. census
- Polette 120 · U.S. census
- Poletti 673 · U.S. census
- Poletto 181 · U.S. census
- Poli 2,025 · U.S. census
- Policard 114 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Poles is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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