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Pola

#9,939 in 2025Girls' name

To save, through Apolonia

Pola has been given to 682 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #9,939 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Pola, 2025

1 in 332,000

Pola over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pola: meaning, origin, and history

To save, through Apolonia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pola means

Pola belongs to the name family reached through Pola → Apolonia → Ἀπολλωνία. Its meaning is “to save”.

Origin, language, and formation

Pola is used in Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Apolonia and Ἀπολλωνία.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Pola is pronounced /ˈpɔ.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 682 girls were recorded with the name Pola between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1926; its best national rank was #1,706 in 1926.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,857 in 2020 to #9,939 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,692 in 2015 to #9,939 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pola?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,939
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pola sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Polas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pola was born before 1958 — so the typical Pola is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
362
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Choose a decade

1920s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Pola rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,082
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+753
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1926 (25)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,706
1926

Spellings of Pola

Pola is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 12.4% against Pola's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pola is used

Across 1910–2025, Pola was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 580,358 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pola around the world

Where Pola ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #872
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1928–2025
    #2,510
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1957–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Pola by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,939
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,082
Best rank ever
#1,706
1926
Peak year
1926
25 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
682
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Pola

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Pola

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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