Polo

At the 2020 census, 3,613 Americans bore the surname Polo — 8,711th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 82,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,613
Rank: 8,711th
How common: 1 in 82,700
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian, Spanish

From Italian Polo and Spanish Polo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 59.3%
White, not Hispanic 32.4%
Black, not Hispanic 4.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Polo

Marco Polo (1254–1324)Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia
Teri Polo (born 1969)American actress
Andy Polo (born 1994)Peruvian association football player
María del Carmen Polo Martínez-Valdés (1900–1988)Spanish noble
Eddie Polo (1875–1961)actor
Gaspar Gil Polo (1535–1591)Spanish writer
Joe Polo (born 1982)American curler
Malvina Polo (1903–2000)American actress

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

Surnames like Polo

Also a first name

Polo has been given to 599 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

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.