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    The surname Polan

    A place surname, carried by 767 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P450

    Polan: #30,442 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Polan #30,442, 767 people Polan: #30,442 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Polan #30,442, 767 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Polan is more common than 81.2% of them.

    Origin

    From the Slavic habitational surname from Polyany in Belarus and Ukraine, from Proto-Slavic *poľe (“field, clearing”).

    Polan is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 767 people named Polan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 402,537 Americans. That is down 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 860.

    #30,442
    rank among US surnames
    767
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -10.8%
    change since 2000 (was #26,642)

    Who is named Polan

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    92% of people named Polan identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.8%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Polan

    Polan has the Soundex code P450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P450.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Polan come from?
    From the Slavic habitational surname from Polyany in Belarus and Ukraine, from Proto-Slavic *poľe (“field, clearing”).
    How common is the surname Polan?
    767 people in the United States had the surname Polan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 402,537 Americans. It ranked 30,442nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Polan?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Polan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Polan?
    Polan is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Polan getting more or less common?
    Less common. 860 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 767 in 2010, down 11%.