Pola
Pola was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,939 among girls’ names; 682 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pola mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Pola is “a female given name”
Clipping of Apolonia.
/ˈpɔ.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pola?
#9,939 among girls’ names, 2025
Pola rose from #10,692 in 2015 to #9,939 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 6.2 per million.
25 babies in 1926, the peak
Pola peaked in 1926, when 25 girls were given it, #1,706 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,939 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,946 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,522 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,549 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,857 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,163 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,378 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,356 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,893 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,692 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 19 | #6,646 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,663 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,524 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,230 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,024 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,845 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,622 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,426 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,759 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,955 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,723 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,029 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,265 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,472 | 3.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,993 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,780 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,384 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,731 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,794 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,767 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,667 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,358 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,319 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,702 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,078 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,971 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,277 | 3.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,512 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,715 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,909 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,113 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,532 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,666 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,170 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,332 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,089 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,099 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,208 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,318 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,884 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,792 | 4.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,109 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,399 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,125 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,310 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,286 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,441 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,976 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,951 | 17.3 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,873 | 18.4 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,706 | 21.1 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,099 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,391 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,246 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,355 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,613 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,608 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,176 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,426 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,173 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,794 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,162 | 6.1 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,499 | 12.8 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,409 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pola has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pola, and how old are they?
An estimated 398 Americans named Pola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 758 people named Pola (664 women and girls, 94 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 380 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 30,390 babies since 1880, Pola is the second most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 89 babies (11%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pola
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Roseline | 1,400 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pola and names like it
- Compare Pola and PollyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pola since 1910.
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- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Pola.
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