Poli is from the Hopi Poli — butterfly. A modern American baby name in the broader Hopi Indigenous heritage aesthetic. Poli is one of the foundational Hopi feminine names — central to traditional Hopi Indigenous Uto-Aztecan heritage. The foundational Hopi butterfly is central to foundational Hopi katsina (kachina) spiritual heritage + foundational Poli Kachina (butterfly maiden + foundational Hopi female puberty/coming-of-age dance + foundational Snake-Antelope ceremony). Notable bearer: Polingaysi Qoyawayma (1892-1990) — foundational Hopi-Anglo educator + foundational author of foundational No Turning Back: A True Account of a Hopi Indian Girl's Struggle to Bridge the Gap Between the World of Her People and the World of the White Man (1964, foundational Hopi autobiography) + foundational The Sun Girl (1978, foundational Hopi children's literature) + foundational figure in foundational Indigenous American educational + bicultural heritage. Foundational Hopi feminine name reflecting Pueblo Indigenous heritage.
Featured throughout Hopi heritage.
Poli does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Poli reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.