Lára

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/lauːra/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lára is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Laura, from the feminime form of laurus (“laurel tree”).

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 496(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 604
  • ESSpain1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

83,067 people, 2010

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 496 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lara in US United States, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Latin Laura, from the feminime form of laurus (“laurel tree”).

Sources 2

Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lára counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lára is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States83,0671 in 4K83KLara105
ES Spain43,2261 in 1.2K43KLara16
EC Ecuador34,1151 in 49634KLara4
AR Argentina17,6461 in 2.6K18KLara1
CR Costa Rica8,4431 in 6048.4K——

83,067 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lára is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname83 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Spanish

    Also written Lara, LaRae, Laera, La'Rae, La-Rae

  • Spanish surname112 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Venezuela, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

    Also written Lara, Lärä, Lârâ, Lará, Lárá

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Lāra, Lāṛa, Lará, Lara, Lārā

  • a separate surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Peru, Spain

    Also written Lara, Lãrã, Làrã, L̶ar̶a, Làrå

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Lara, Lâřâ

  • English given name81 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Laos, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, Lao, Thai

    Also written Lora, Laura, Lara, ลอร่า, Läürä

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Hanna Lára Palsdóttir, b. 1950Lára Sveinsdóttir, b. 1955Lára Jóhannsdóttir, b. 1961Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir, b. 1981Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir, b. 1986

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Lára,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lára mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Laura, from the feminime form of laurus (“laurel tree”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
What are other forms of the name Lára?
In the etymology graph, Laura, Lori and Laurie are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Lára?
A machine transcription gives /lauːra/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Lára a male or female name?
Lára is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Lára have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 83 thousand people named Lára, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lara.
Where is Lára most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lára is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 496 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lára?
In the United States, the national register counted 83,067 people named Lára in 2010, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lára”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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