Lêmus
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lêmus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname. Recorded meaning: probably a variant spelling of Lemos.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 321(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 502
- HNHonduras≈1 in 654
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.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 321 (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lemus in SV El Salvador, US United States, GT Guatemala and 4 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)
probably a variant spelling of Lemos.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lêmus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | #6 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 502 | — | Lemus | 97 |
| US United States | — | 27,079 | 1 in 12K | 28K | Lemus | 357 |
| SV El Salvador | #55 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 321 | 22K | Lemus | 67 |
| CN China | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Lemus | 6 |
| HN Honduras | #85 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 654 | — | Lemus | 38 |
| CO Colombia | #410 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 10 | Lemus | 107 |
| CL Chile | #497 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 1 | Lemus | 87 |
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: El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 Lêmus mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a variant spelling of Lemos. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Lêmus a male or female name?
- Lêmus is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Lêmus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Lêmus in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lemus.
- How common is the name Lêmus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 27,079 people named Lêmus in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Lêmus compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Lêmus is the 6th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lêmus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%AAmusThe 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, “Lêmus” — the 6th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.