How popular is the baby name Pol in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Pol.
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The mountainous microstate of Andorra is located in the Pyrenees, sandwiched between France and Spain.
Andorra has a population of fewer than 100,000 people — making it more populous than Monaco and Liechtenstein, but less populous than Malta.
The country’s official language is Catalan, but other languages (like French and Spanish) are also spoken.
Though I haven’t been able to find up-to-date baby name rankings for Andorra, I did recently come across four sets of rankings that were slightly older. So here are Andorra’s most popular baby names of 2015, 2013, 2012, and 2011:
2015
In 2015, a total of 602 babies (304 girls and 298 boys) were born in Andorra.
Girl names, 2015
Boy names, 2015
1. Alba 2. Janna 3. Lia 4. Aina 5. Ainoa 6. Júlia 7. Laia 8. Lara 9. Maria 10. Martina
1. Lucas 2. Nil 3. Martí 4. Eric 5. Adrià 6. Enzo 7. Liam 8. Rodrigo 9. Alex 10. Biel
Some explanations…
Aina, Martí, and Adrià are the Catalan forms of Anna, Martin, and Adrian.
Ainoa is based on the Basque name Ainhoa.
Laia and Biel are the Catalan diminutives of Eulalia and Gabriel.
Nil is derived from Neilos, the name of the Greek god of the Nile river (and also the ancient Greek name of the river itself).
Enzo could be short for any of the Italian –enzo names, such as Lorenzo.
2013
In 2013, Andorra welcomed a total of 588 babies (297 girls and 291 boys).
Girl names, 2013
Boy names, 2013
1. Laia 2. Carlota 3. Emma 4. Lara 5. Martina 6. Aina 7. Maria 8. Blanca 9. Laura 10. Valentina
1. Marc 2. Eric 3. Jan 4. Daniel 5. Enzo 6. Ian 7. Pol 8. Àlex 9. Jordi 10. Martí
Pol and Jordi are the Catalan forms of Paul and George.
This was the only set of rankings to feature “Àlex,” the Catalan short form of Alexander, as opposed to accent-less “Alex” (which is likely a typo).
2012
In 2012, a total of 661 babies (332 girls and 329 boys) were born in Andorra.
Girl names, 2012
Boy names, 2012
1. Júlia 2. Noa 3. Maria 4. Lara 5. Alba 6. Abril 7. Aina 8. Ona 9. Clara 10. Emma
1. Alex 2. Marc 3. Martí 4. Iker 5. Arnau 6. Biel 7. Gabriel 8. Jan 9. Nil 10. Pol
Some explanations…
Ona is a short form of Mariona, the Catalan diminutive of Maria.
Iker is a Basque name.
Arnau is the Catalan form of Arnold.
2011
In 2011, Andorra welcomed a total of 720 babies (353 girls and 367 boys).
Girl names, 2011
Boy names, 2011
1. Laia 2. Abril 3. Aina 4. Luana 5. Lara 6. Noa 7. Júlia
1. Daniel 2. Iker 3. Eric 4. Martí 5. Pol 6. Jan 7. Biel
The Southern European country of Spain, located on the Iberian Peninsula, shares land borders with France, Andorra, and Portugal.
Last year, Spain welcomed nearly 163,000 baby girls and almost 174,000 baby boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Lucia and Martin.
Here are Spain’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2021…
Girl Names
Lucia, 3,643 baby girls
Martina, 3,042
Sofia, 2,998
Maria, 2,696
Valeria, 2,390
Julia, 2,363
Paula, 2,050
Emma, 2,033
Daniela, 1,866
Carla, 1,811
Alma, 1,772
Olivia, 1,732
Sara, 1,708
Carmen, 1,696
Vega, 1,666
Mia, 1,663
Lara, 1,627
Alba, 1,561
Noa, 1,542
Lola, 1,533
Valentina, 1,434
Chloe, 1,415
Claudia, 1,380
Jimena, 1,375
Aitana, 1,246
Laia, 1,116
Vera, 1,069
Abril, 1,067
Alejandra, 1,060
Ana, 1,047
Triana, 1,043
Candela, 1,041
Adriana, 996
Manuela, 962
Elena, 959
Carlota, 931
Ines, 895
Blanca, 888
Marina, 868
Marta, 813
Lia, 790
Victoria, 782
Nora, 764
Zoe, 752
Rocio, 747
Alicia, 723
Clara, 718
Gala, 707
Luna, 685
Ariadna, 673
Vega, which ranked 15th, is the Spanish word for “meadow.” As a given name, it’s a reference to the Marian title La Virgen de la Vega. (The word is also featured in the name of the famous Nevada city of Las Vegas — “the meadows.”)
Boy Names
Martin, 3,459 baby boys
Hugo, 3,339
Mateo, 3,270
Leo, 2,837
Lucas, 2,810
Manuel, 2,587
Daniel, 2,520
Alejandro, 2,513
Pablo, 2,276
Enzo, 2,007
Alvaro, 1,941
Mario, 1,792
Adrian, 1,781
Diego, 1,598
Thiago, 1,567
Bruno, 1,485
Oliver, 1,452
David, 1,441
Alex, 1,438
Marco, 1,413
Gonzalo, 1,364
Marcos, 1,349
Nicolas, 1,315
Antonio, 1,303
Izan, 1,279
Miguel, 1,275
Javier, 1,267
Luca, 1,216
Liam, 1,198
Gael, 1,127
Marc, 1,095
Dylan, 1,044
Juan, 1,036
Angel, 1,035
Carlos, 992
Jose, 988
Gabriel, 960
Sergio, 907
Eric, 862
Jorge, 849
Dario, 832
Adam, 818
Samuel, 811
Hector, 784
Rodrigo, 762
Iker, 750
Pau, 735
Jesus, 723
Guillermo, 706
Jaime, 705
Home to more than 47 million people, Spain is divided into 17 autonomous communities (including two island groups) and two autonomous cities (both located on the northern coast of Africa).
The top baby names within each of Spain’s 17 autonomous communities last year were…
Keepers have named the young male Edward after Johnny Depp’s famous character, Edward Scissorhands, due to his impressive claws – which will grow up to four inches in length and enable him to cling on and climb easily through the tree-top branches of his Rainforest Life home.
I was struck by this, since Murphy and others had first described Athena’s personality to me as “feisty.” “They earn their names,” Murphy had told me. Athena is named for the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, and strategy. She is not usually a laid-back octopus, like George had been. “Athena could pull you into the tank,” Murphy had warned. “She’s curious about what you are.”
The most famous of all the Mercury chimps, due to his landmark January 1961 flight, Ham was actually not publicly called Ham until after the flight succeeded. The name by which he’s now known — an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medical Center at the Air Force base — was only widely used when he returned safely to earth; NASA reportedly wanted to avoid bad publicity should a named (and thus a known, publicly embraced) animal be killed; all the Mercury chimps were known by numbers.
Republican Gov. Paul LePage, the state’s all-time veto champion, has named his new dog Veto.
LePage, who has earned renown for exercising his veto pen on bills he didn’t like, adopted a Jack Russell terrier mix from a shelter.
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LePage chose the name Veto because his pet “is the mascot of good public policy, defender of the Maine people and protector of hardworking taxpayers from bad legislation,” his spokesman Peter Steele said.
Steele joked that the governor is going to train the dog to deliver vetoes from his office to legislative leaders.
Fans of the K-pop group NCT 127 donated money in January to name a baby pudu at the Los Angeles Zoo after one of its members, Haechan (HECH’-ehn). This week, the human Haechan got to meet his namesake, snapping selfies with the little deer at his enclosure.
Long, long ago — five years, to be precise — Jeff Owens accepted that his calls to the vet would tax his fortitude. When the person on the other end asks his name, Owens, a test scorer in Albuquerque, says, “Jeff.” When they ask for his cat’s name, he has to tell them, “Baby Jeff.” The black exotic shorthair, a wheezy female with a squashed face and soulful orange eyes, is named for Owens, says his partner, Brittany Means, whose tweet about Jeff and Baby Jeff went viral this past spring. The whole thing started as a joke several years ago, when Means started calling every newcomer to their home — the car, the couch — “Baby Jeff.” Faced with blank adoption paperwork in 2017, the couple realized that only one name would do.
Hearst put the bear on display [in 1889] in Golden Gate Park and named him Monarch. At more than 1,200 pounds, Monarch was the largest bear ever held captive.
[…]
Taking a cue from the Sonoma revolt in 1846 [after which a flag featuring a bear was created to represent the captured region], the state again decided to make the California Grizzly the flag’s focal point. Only this time they wanted a bear that actually looked like a bear.
Illustrators used the recently deceased Monarch as the model for the bear on our state flag.
(Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst took the name “Monarch” from the tagline of the San Francisco Examiner, the “Monarch of the Dailies.”)
About Pigcasso, a 450-pound painting pig in South Africa with a great name:
She’s fat, friendly and fabulous! Meet Pigcasso – the fine swine who was rescued from the brink of extinction at a South African pig ‘farm’. From pork chop to hog heaven, she loves the sweet things in life: Eat. Sleep. Eat. Repeat. She also loves to paint – and that’s no hogwash! Pigcasso’s primary purpose? To paint a better picture for farm animals.
(Titles of Pigcasso’s paintings include Grin, Vitality, Rockstar, and Brexit.)
From the description of a mid-2020 video released by the Australian Reptile Park of New South Wales:
We have a very special announcement… Our very first koala of the season has popped out of Mums pouch to say hello!
Keepers have decided to name her Ash! Ash is the first koala born at the park since the tragic Australian bushfires and is a sign of hope for the future of Australia’s native wildlife.
New Orleans dogs are often the namesakes of the cuisine (Gumbo, Roux, Beignet, Po-Boy, Boudin); the Saints (Brees, Payton, Deuce); music (Toussaint, Jazz, Satchmo); streets (Clio, Tchoupitoulas, Calliope); neighborhoods (Pearl, Touro, Gert) and Mardi Gras krewes (Zulu, Rex, Bacchus).
One cast member had very few complaints about shooting in Hawaii, never letting it get in the way of her own agenda on the set. The filmmakers found Bertha, the water buffalo that [Jack] Black’s character rides, in Texas and flew her to Kauai on a special plane. But about midway through filming, everyone was in for a big surprise. One day the trainer called us and said, Oh, by the way, Bertha can’t work because when we showed up at the corral this morning, she had a calf, recalls producer McLeod. We didn’t know she was pregnant. No one knew she was pregnant. Bertha having this baby was definitely kind of a humorous morale booster for everyone. In honor of Jack Black, the animal trainer named Bertha’s baby Little Jack.
Bears at Brooks River are assigned numbers for monitoring, management, and identification purposes. Inevitably, some bears acquire nicknames from staff and these nicknames are included in this book, but naming wild animals is not without controversy. Is it appropriate to name wild animals?
[…]
Names also carry meaning, intentionally or not. What stigmas would you attach to a young bear nicknamed Fluffy versus a large male bear named Killer? How would those stigmas alter your experience when watching that animal?
(The booklet also included the nicknames of various Katmai brown bears. For example, “Walker” had “large dark eye rings” reminiscent of zombie eyes, and “Evander” was missing part of an ear — much like Evander Holyfield after his 1997 fight with Mike Tyson.)
In England we find dogs that were named Sturdy, Whitefoot, Hardy, Jakke, Bo and Terri. Anne Boleyn, one of the wives of King Henry VIII, had a dog named Purkoy, who got its name from the French ‘pourquoi’ because it was very inquisitive.
Clara is my 2-year-old Wheaten terrier and one of several dogs in my neighborhood with a name that sounds as if it came from a shuffleboard tournament on a golden-years cruise. Among her pals, Fern is red-nose pit bull, Alfie is (mostly) a black lab and Eleanor is a mix of Bernese mountain dog and poodle.
This pack has led me to conclude that whereas we look back to remote centuries when giving children trendy names like Emma, Sebastian, Julian or Charlotte, we name our dogs after our grandparents.
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This means that future generations of dogs should be prepared to be called the mom-and-dad names of today. Names like Kimberly, Jason and Heather.
From a 2019 video of Vogue editor Anna Wintour talking about her new puppy, named Finch:
She’s called Finch because we call all of our dogs after characters in To Kill a Mockingbird. So we have had a Scout, a Radley, and a Harper. And let me tell you, they are not happy about Finch’s arrival.
From a video in which rapper DRAM talks about his goldendoodle named Idnit [vid]:
The generic name “Pol” for a parrot can be traced back to England since at least the early 1600s. In his 1606 comedy Volpone, Renaissance playwright — and close friend of William Shakespeare — Ben Jonson assigned many of the characters animal personas which reflected their true nature.
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Two comic relief-type characters, Sir Politic Would-Be (“Sir Pol” for short) and his wife, are visitors from England who are trying to ingratiate themselves into Venetian society, and they do so by simply mimicking the words and behavior of Volpone and his associates. Because of their endearing ignorance of what they are actually saying when they repeat phrases they’ve learned, Jonson describes them as parrots.
It is unclear whether Jonson actually coined the term “Pol” as a catch-all moniker for parrots, or if he simply popularized it. In any case, indulgent British pet owners eventually turned “Pol” into the much cutesier diminutive “Polly,” and both names made their way across the Atlantic.
Staff at the Buckinghamshire, England [animal] hospital say the gull somehow got curry or turmeric all over his feathers, which prevented him from flying properly. The bird, named Vinny after the popular Indian dish Vindaloo curry, put up a fight but eventually let the staff scrub his feathers.
From a late 2020 Zoological Society of London news release:
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo’s giraffe herd welcomed a giant six-foot-tall new arrival this week — on what has been dubbed ‘the day of hope’ by staff at the UK’s largest zoo.
The female calf was born at the same time [that] the first COVID-19 vaccine was given to 90-year-old Margaret Keenan, during the early hours of Tuesday 8 December — and in recognition of the poignant moment, the infant has been named Margaret.
From a late 2023 BBC article about a rescued turtle:
The tiny turtle was found in a pretty bad condition off the Scottish island of Iona – which she was named after – in January 2022.
Her rescuers weren’t sure if she was going to make it at first, as she is a loggerhead turtle, a tropical species that needs warm temperatures to survive.
But after almost two years of recovery in the UK and Portugal, Iona has now been released back into the ocean by marine scientists.
Last year, the top baby names in Catalonia — an autonomous region in northeastern Spain — were Marc for boys and Julia for girls.
Here are Catalonia’s top 20 girl names and top 20 boy names of 2012:
Baby Girl Names
Baby Boy Names
1. Júlia/Julia (954 baby girls) 2. Martina (889) 3. Laia (833) 4. Carla (748) 5. Paula (697) 6. Maria/María (683) 7. Lucía (656) 8. Aina (591) 9. Noa (548) 10. Sara (529) 11. Clàudia/Claudia (528) 12. Emma (515) 13. Ariadna (452) 14. Alba (451) 15. Abril (380) 16. Arlet (369) 17. Daniela (355) 18. Jana (348) 19. Berta (338) 20. Ona (333)
1. Marc (1,125 baby boys) 2. Àlex/Álex (753) 3. Èric/Eric (735) 4. Pol (696) 5. Pau (669) 6. Hugo (640) 7. Biel (636) 8. Arnau (621) 9. Gerard (600) 10. Jan (589) 11. Martí (577) 12. Nil (538) 13. Aleix (450) 14. David (441) 15. Oriol (431) 16. Daniel (425) 17. Adam (405) 18. Joel (379) 19. Adrià (373) 20. Iker (372)
Iker, regularly a top-20 name in Catalonia, was rare in the U.S. just a decade ago. Today, usage of Iker is rising rapidly. It entered the top 1,000 in 2010 and already ranked 230th in 2012.
Who kicked off the Iker trend? Soccer player Iker Casillas Fernandez. (His younger brother also has an interesting name — Unai, a Basque word meaning “cowherd.”)
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