Pohl

6,409 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pohl in the 2020 census, making it the 5,256th most common in the country. That is about one person in 46,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,409
Rank: 5,256th
How common: 1 in 46,600
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pohl described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.9%
Hispanic or Latino 7.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Pohl

Frederik Pohl (1919–2013)American science fiction writer and editor
Oswald Pohl (1892–1951)German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal
Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916)German admiral
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (1782–1834)Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist and physician
Hans-Peter Pohl (born 1965)German Nordic combined skier
Ernest Pohl (1932–1995)Polish footballer
Walter Pohl (born 1953)Austrian historian
Stephanie Pohl (born 1987)German cyclist

People named Pohl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pohl

Pohlman

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.