Pol

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Pol: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Pol: Recorded since 1984, it reached #189 in 2000, and it stood at #3,684 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
13times a registrar ranked it
42years from first to last
#189highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2019–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#4702
2024	#5119
2025	#3684

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Northern Ireland in 8 of the 23 years from 1999 to 2021.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1984–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1984
First recorded at #318 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1984 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1999–2021
Highest recorded position: #189 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2000 (recorded 1999–2021).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #3684 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Pol appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Northern Ireland · Boys, with 8 ranked years and 33 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1984.

Pol across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Pol's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Northern Ireland · Boys	#277 (1999)	#189 (2000)	#374 (2021)	8 of 23	33 (1999–2021)	7 (2000)
England and Wales · Boys	#4702 (2019)	#3684 (2025)	#3684 (2025)	3 of 7	11 (2019–2025)	5 (2025)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#318 (1984)	#318 (1984)	#323 (1990)	2 of 7	6 (1984–1990)	3 (1984)

Pol by decade in Northern Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Pol in Northern Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	19	4 of 10	5
2010s	4	1 of 10	4
2020s	7	2 of 10	4

See the names Northern Ireland has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1984 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #189 in Northern Ireland in 2000.

Pol's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#3684	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#293	5	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#189	7	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#323	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#318	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Pol is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Pol, between 1984 and 2025, in 13 of those 42 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1984–1990	2	#318 in 1984
Northern Ireland	1999–2021	8	#189 in 2000
England and Wales	2019–2025	3	#3684 in 2025

Its high point came 41 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1984) than in England and Wales (2025).

No registrar recorded it for 8 years after 1990; it appears again in 1999.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1984 and 2025, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #189, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 7 births, registered in Northern Ireland in 2000.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 35 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

5decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 5 decades →
3 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
8separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
8 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#3,684position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
35 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
7births registered in its largest year, 2000Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Piran · #1280, 29y
Pixie · #246, 21y
Pola · #199, 22y
Polina · #555, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mirha · #189, 13y
Ruadh · #187, 12y
Blain · #186, 13y
Courteney · #186, 15y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Emilio · #188, 35y
Keri · #191, 20y
Klaudia · #187, 43y
Blain · #186, 13y

Pol was ranked #189 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Anton#189
Brooklyn#189
Bryan#189
Carter#189
Angus#206
Brett#206
Cahal#206
Cody#206

What is known about Pol

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1984–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1984 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #189 in Northern Ireland in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Pol

Pol at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Pol across 3 official records

Pol by decade in Northern Ireland · Boys

Popularity data

Where Pol is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Pol

What is known about Pol

Pol at a glance

Pol across 3 official records

Pol by decade in Northern Ireland · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Pol