Lar
org · Latin script
Meaning: home
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 919K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 140K
- CZCzechia≈1 in 266K
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)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
362 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
home
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lar 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 | 362 | 1 in 919K | 627 | Lar | 111 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | Lar | 32 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 266K | 10 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 470 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Lar | 28 |
| SE Sweden | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 593K | 11 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 15 | 1 in 140K | 15 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 6 | 1 in 929K | 30 | — | 1 |
362 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, home (place or building where one dwells)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, singular of Lares
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In cau-lzg-pro, slush, mire (after rain)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In cau-nkh-pro, track, footprint
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In English, singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cornel-Dorel LarRORomanian politician from Ileanda, Sălaj County
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 230 | #25,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 132 | #25,961 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #13,166 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,669 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 26 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 23 | #55,887 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 20 | #63,458 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 15 | #2,114 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 15 | #2,094 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 14 | #4,442 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 11 | #2,386 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 11 | #2,301 |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lar mean, and where does it come from?
- home Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Lar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 362 people named Lar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lar.
- Where is Lar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lar is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 140 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 362 people named Lar in 2020, about 1 in 919 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/larThe 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, “Lar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.