Lázar

surname · Latin script

Lázar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character f.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 654(inferred from the name graph)
  • HUHungary≈1 in 9K
  • USUnited States1 in 55K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈33,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
374 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 654 (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LázarLatin(measured from records)
ლაზარGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lazar in US United States, ES Spain, HU Hungary and 3 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)

Derivation of Lázar: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Lázar
  1. Middle Englishlazare(measured from records)
  2. Old Frenchlazare(measured from records)
  3. Medieval Latinlazarus“leper”(measured from records)
  4. Koine GreekΛᾱ́ζᾱροςLā́zāros(measured from records)
  5. Hebrewאֶלְעָזָר“Eleazar”(measured from records)

From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character found in Luke 16, from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (“Eleazar”), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped".

Sources 9

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Russian Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lázar 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 Lázar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#257≈33,000 est.≈1 in 654—Lazar63
US United States—6,0931 in 55K6.2KLazar374
IT Italy—≈3,700 est.≈1 in 17K5Lazar38
PL Poland—2,5731 in 15K1.3KLazar3
ES Spain—2,1541 in 23K2.2KLazar39
SI Slovenia—1,1991 in 1.8K1.2K—11
HR Croatia—1,1651 in 3.6K1.2K—2
HU Hungary#250≈1,100 est.≈1 in 9K—Lazar103
MD Moldova—≈440 est.≈1 in 7.6K91—7

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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); e-services.md — living population register. 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)

Lázar is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name14 spellings in the group

    Also written Lazar', Lazãr, Ĺazár, Lazaŕ, Lazăr

2 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)

16001700180019002000Lazar Baranovych, b. 1616Laza Kostić, b. 1841Lazar Bicherakhov, b. 1882Lazar Abramson, b. 1884Lazar Kaganovich, b. 1893Lazar Aronshtam, b. 1896Lazar Lyusternik, b. 1899Lazar Berman, b. 1930Lazar Naroditsky, b. 1937Lazar Raičević, b. 1998

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lázar under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lázar mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character f… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
In which country does Lázar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Lázar in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lazar.
How common is the name Lázar?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,093 people named Lázar in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
How common is Lázar compared with other names?
In Romania, Lázar is the 257th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lázar” — the 257th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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