Låke
surname · Latin script
Låke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream. Old English lacu, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in Wiltshire and Devon.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 9.7K
- USUnited States1 in 10K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- 1 in 399 (inferred from the name graph)
32,104 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lake in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia 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)topographic name for someone who lived by a stream. Old English lacu, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in Wiltshire and Devon. Modem English lake (Middle English lake) is only distantly related, if at all; it comes via Old French from Latin lacus. This meaning, which ousted the native sense, came too late to be found as a place name element, but may lie behind some examples of the surname.
Cited for this meaning 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The African book of 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
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Låke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 32,104 | 1 in 10K | 32K | Lake | 341 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 317 | Lake | 149 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | Lake | 121 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Lake | 114 |
| TD Chad | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Lake | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Lake | 44 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 135 | 1 in 399 | 135 | — | 10 |
| GY Guyana | 93 | 1 in 8.1K | 93 | — | 2 |
32,104 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Låke mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by a stream. Old English lacu, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in Wiltshire and Devon. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The African book of names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Låke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Låke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lake.
- Where is Låke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Låke is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 399 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Låke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,104 people named Låke in 2010, about 1 in 10 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, “Låke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.