Poul
Poul is a boy's name that peaked in 1970, when it was the 3,521st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1995. About 30 Pouls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 49.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Poul
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 39
- Estimated living today
- 30
- Median age today
- 49
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 3,521st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1944
How old the living Pouls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 39 babies given the name since 1944, about 30 are alive — 85 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1976 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Pouls
- Poul Anderson (1926–2001)American science fiction writer
- Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (born 1943)Prime Minister of Denmark from 1993 to 2001
- Poul Schlüter (1929–2021)Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993
- Poul Hartling (1914–2000)Danish politician and diplomat
- Poul Nielsen (1891–1962)Danish footballer
- Poul Heegaard (1871–1948)Danish mathematician
- Poul Jensen (born 2000)Danish astronomer
- Poul Dalsager (1929–2001)Danish politician
People named Poul with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Poul peaked:
Poul among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Poul | — | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.