Lò

surname · Latin script

Meaning: kiln, furnace, oven, heater

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Lò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 58th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 9.3Kas Lu
  • ARArgentina1 in 7.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lò itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

35,628 named Lu, 2010

Record sources
109 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lu in US United States, VN Vietnam and Lo in ES Spain.

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)

kiln, furnace, oven, heater

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Lò 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 Lò is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—35,628as Lu1 in 9.3K47KLu107
VN Vietnam#58≈16,000 est.≈1 in 6.2KlistedLu109
AR Argentina—6,2591 in 7.3K6.3K——
ES Spain—1,818as Lu1 in 28K1.8KLo11
SN Senegal—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 14K46—2
FI Finland—492as Lu1 in 11K492—1
NO Norway—474as Lu1 in 12K474—6

35,628 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)

Lò is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

    Also written Lo, Lộ, Lô, Ló, Lö

  • English surname73 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lo, Loe, Lö, Loee, Loë

  • Arabic surname68 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Maltese

    Also written Lo, Lô, Lö, Lõ, Ló

  • Spanish surname57 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Lo, Ló, Lô, Lö, Lo'

  • Chinese surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, Hong Kong, United States, China

    Also written Lo, Lô, Ló, Lỡ, Lồ

  • French surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, Belgium, United States

    Also written Lo, L'O, Lô, Lö, Lo'

  • a separate name14 spellings in the group

    Also written Lờ, Lồ, Lọ, Lo, Lơ

12 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Lò is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Scottish Gaelic, synonym of latha (“day”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In raw, water buffalo.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kix, swept away

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Haitian Creole, gold

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lò 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 Lò mean, and where does it come from?
kiln, furnace, oven, heater Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Lò have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Lu, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Lò?
In Argentina, the national register counted 6,259 people named Lò, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
How common is Lò compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Lò is the 58th most common surname of 62,915 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, “Lò” — the 58th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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