Lakså

surname · Latin script

Lakså is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Malay laksa, from Classical Malay لقسا (laksa), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa, “hundred thousand”).

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 58K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 128K
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

300 people, 2026

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Laksa in IN India.

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 Lakså: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Lakså
  1. Malaylaksa(measured from records)
  2. Classical Malayلقساlaksa(measured from records)
  3. Sanskritलक्षlakṣa“hundred thousand”(measured from records)

From Malay laksa, from Classical Malay لقسا (laksa), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa, “hundred thousand”).

Sources 1

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lakså 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 Lakså is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland3001 in 128K158——
NO Norway941 in 58K94Lakså8
CZ Czechia101 in 1.1M10——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——
IN India——listedLaksa1

300 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Lakså is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Laksaa, Laksá, Laksa

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Laksa, Ļaksa

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Lakså
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—94#16,286
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4#70,091

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lakså mean, and where does it come from?
From Malay laksa, from Classical Malay لقسا (laksa), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa, “hundred thousand”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Lakså have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 300 people named Lakså, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lakså most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lakså is densest in Norway — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lakså?
In Poland, the national register counted 300 people named Lakså in 2026, about 1 in 128 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, “Lakså”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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