# Poland (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/poland/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 7,746 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,581 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 39,859 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.4% (7,854 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈpoɫ.ənd/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | Poleland |

## Etymology

1560s. From Pole + land, a phono-semantic matching of German Polen (“Poland”), from Old Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Poland in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Poland in the United States.

## People named Poland

- Chris Poland, American guitarist
- Luke P. Poland, American politician (1815–1887)

## Similar surnames

Plant, Piland, Pelland, Plante, Palmatier, Pylant, Palmateer.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.