Given name & surname
Pola
Pola is a feminine given name from Polish. It is used in Polish.
Original PolishApolonia
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pola through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 682
- 0 boys · 682 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,942 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −34%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,942 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 758 as a first name in 2020; 797 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pola’s family of names
In Polish usage, Pola is a diminutive of APOLONIA. In English usage, Pola as a surname has a related form in PULA. In Italian usage, Pola as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form PULA.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Pola
- Pola NegriPolish actress (1897-1987)
- Pola RaksaPolish actressborn 1941
- Pola Illéryactress (1909–1993)
- Pola KinskiGerman actressborn 1952
- Pola GauguinNorwegian painter and biographer (1883-1961)
- Pola NirenskaPolish dancer and choreographer (1910-1992)
- Pola AlonsoArgentine actress (1923–2004)
- Pola GojawiczyńskaPolish writer (1896–1963)
- Manzila Uddin, Baroness UddinBritish politician (born 1959)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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