Pollard
33,334 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pollard in the 2020 census, making it the 1,035th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,967.
By the numbers
- People
- 33,334
- Rank
- 1,035th
- How common
- 1 in 8,967
- Per 100,000
- 11.2
Where the name comes from
Origin a nickname
From Middle English poll (“head”) + the pejorative suffix -ard (“person characterized by or associated with something, often in a negative way”). The suffix has the same meaning as in drunkard and coward.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Pollard described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Pollard
- Michael J. Pollard (1939–2019)American actor
- Jonathan Pollard (born 1954)U.S. civilian intelligence analyst turned Israeli spy
- Snub Pollard (1889–1962)Australian actor
- Harry A. Pollard (1879–1934)American actor, film director, screenwriter
- Jim Pollard (1922–1993)American basketball player and coach
- Scot Pollard (born 1975)American basketball player and reality television contestant
- Kieron Pollard (born 1987)West Indian cricketer
- Robert Pollard (born 1957)American singer and songwriter
People named Pollard with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Pollard
Try it on yourself
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.