Lazăr
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/lazər/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lazăr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Romania it is the 17th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character f.
- RORomania≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 55K
- SISlovenia1 in 1.8K
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)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
6,093 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lazar in RO Romania, US United States, 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)- Middle Englishlazare(measured from records)
- Old Frenchlazare(measured from records)
- Medieval Latinlazarus“leper”(measured from records)
- Koine GreekΛᾱ́ζᾱροςLā́zāros(measured from records)
- Hebrewאֶלְעָזָר“Eleazar”(measured from records)
From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character found in Luke 16, from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (“Eleazar”), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped".
Cited for this meaning 9
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Russian Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lazăr 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 | — | 6,093 | 1 in 55K | 6.2K | Lazar | 164 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,573 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 2,154 | 1 in 23K | 2.2K | Lazar | 55 |
| RO Romania | #17 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Lazar | 115 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,199 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.2K | — | 4 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,165 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.2K | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 7 | 1 in 11K | 7 | — | — |
6,093 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Filip Lazărb. 1894RORomanian musician (1894-1936)
- Ilie Lazărb. 1895RORomanian politician
- Dorina Lazărb. 1940RORomanian actress
- Elisabeta Lazărb. 1950RORomanian rower
- Florin Lazărb. 1980RORomanian footballer
- Costin Lazărb. 1981RORomanian footballer
- Mihai Lazărb. 1986RORomanian rugby union player
- Valentin Lazărb. 1989ROfootballer
- Alexandru Lazărb. 1991RORomanian footballer
- Rareș Lazărb. 1999RORomanian association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 43 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 43 | #55,185 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #84,933 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Lazăr mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Medieval Latin lazarus (“leper”), an antonomasia from Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of the Biblical character f… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Lazăr?
- A machine transcription gives /lazər/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Lazăr have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Lazăr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lazar.
- Where is Lazăr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lazăr is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lazăr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,093 people named Lazăr in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Lazăr compared with other names?
- In Romania, Lazăr is the 17th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laz%C4%83rThe 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, “Lazăr” — the 17th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.