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    The surname Poland

    A place surname, carried by 7,746 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈpoɫ.ənd/ 2 syllables Soundex P453

    Poland: #4,581 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Poland #4,581, 7,746 people Poland: #4,581 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Poland #4,581, 7,746 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Poland is more common than 97.2% of them.

    Origin

    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”).

    Poland 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 7,746 people named Poland in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,859 Americans. That is down 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,854.

    #4,581
    rank among US surnames
    7,746
    people in 2010
    2.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #4,185)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,577Brogan7,75439,818
    #4,578Lung7,75339,823
    #4,580Rohrer7,75039,838
    #4,581Poland7,74639,859
    #4,582Coronel7,74539,864

    Who is named Poland

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

    91% of people named Poland identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Polands

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Chris Poland
      American guitarist, born 1957
    • Luke P. Poland
      American politician (1815–1887)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Poleland

    Surnames that sound like Poland

    Poland has the Soundex code P453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P453.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Poland come from?
    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”).
    How common is the surname Poland?
    7,746 people in the United States had the surname Poland in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,859 Americans. It ranked 4,581st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Poland?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Poland identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Poland?
    Chris Poland, American guitarist, followed by Luke P. Poland.
    Where is the surname Poland most common?
    Wikidata records people named Poland in the United States.
    How do you pronounce Poland?
    Poland is /ˈpoɫ.ənd/, 2 syllables.
    What type of surname is Poland?
    Poland is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Poland getting more or less common?
    Less common. 7,854 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,746 in 2010, down 1.4%.
    What are other spellings of Poland?
    Poleland.