Lawsoñ

surname · Latin script

Lawsoñ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a Scottish and northern English surname meaning "son of Lawrence," from Lawrence + -son. Compare Law, Laws.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 6.3K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 30K

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.

United States (measured from records)

119,053 people, 2010

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

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 Lawson in US United States.

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)

* As a Scottish and northern English surname meaning "son of Lawrence," from Lawrence + -son. Compare Law, Laws. * As a Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and north German surname, Americanized from Larsen, Larsson.

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Scottish Surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lawsoñ 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 Lawsoñ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States119,0531 in 2.8K119KLawson47
ES Spain2411 in 208K241——
CR Costa Rica1701 in 30K170——
GY Guyana1191 in 6.3K119——
CH Switzerland1021 in 82K102——
FI Finland901 in 62K90——
NO Norway821 in 67K82——

119,053 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lawsoñ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lawsoñ mean, and where does it come from?
* As a Scottish and northern English surname meaning "son of Lawrence," from Lawrence + -son. Compare Law, Laws. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 5 other sources.
In which country does Lawsoñ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 119 thousand people named Lawsoñ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lawson.
Where is Lawsoñ most common?
Lawsoñ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lawsoñ?
In the United States, the national register counted 119,053 people named Lawsoñ in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 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, “Lawsoñ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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