Lázar
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
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. Lázar is also written ლაზარ in Georgian.
- RORomania≈1 in 620(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 1.8K
- HUHungary≈1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 624 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lázar in other scripts: Georgian
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lazar in US United States, HU Hungary, PL Poland and 2 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)- Middle Englishlazare(measured from records)
- Old Frenchlazare(measured from records)
- Medieval Latinlazarus“leper”(measured from records)
- Koine GreekΛᾱ́ζᾱροςLā́zāros(measured from records)
- 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".
Cited for this meaning 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 the surname Lázar is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #257 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 624 | — | Lazar | 63 |
| US United States | — | 6,093 | 1 in 55K | 6.2K | Lazar | 374 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 5 | Lazar | 38 |
| HU Hungary | #250 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Lazar | 103 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,573 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Lazar | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,199 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.2K | — | 11 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,165 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 91 | — | 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; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Laza Kostićb. 1841HUnot in their usual nameSerbian writer and politician (1841–1910)
- Lazar Kaganovichb. 1893UASoviet politician (1893–1991)
- Lazar Bermanb. 1930ITRussian pianist (1930-2005)
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
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lázar?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Lázar in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lazar. After it come United States, Italy, Hungary and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A1zarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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 2026-10-13.