Lazo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: bow (type of knot)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/laθo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lazo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 797(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 847
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 298 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 797 (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from Spanish lazo ‘hair ribbon’, ‘shoe lace’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lazo is read(measured from records)
Lazo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish72%
bow (type of knot)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
Archaic form of lasso.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lazo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #178 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Lazo | 119 |
| PH Philippines | #916 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Lazo | 63 |
| US United States | — | 12,640 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Lazo | 298 |
| SV El Salvador | #139 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 797 | — | Lazo | 54 |
| CL Chile | #345 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Lazo | 106 |
| HN Honduras | #147 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Lazo | 29 |
| NI Nicaragua | #106 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 847 | — | Lazo | 39 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,680 | 1 in 2K | 1.7K | — | 37 |
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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Lazo 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.
nickname from Spanish lazo ‘hair ribbon’, ‘shoe lace’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from Lazo in A Coruna province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Malagasy, fading, withering (leaves, grass, wood)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Italian, lariat, lasso
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)
- Rafael Zaldívarb. 1834SVnot in their usual namePresident of El Salvador (1834-1903)
- Sergey Lazob. 1894MDSoviet Russian partisan
- Salvador Lazo y Lazob. 1918PHFilipino traditionalist Catholic bishop (1918–2000)
- Jorge Camachob. 1934CUnot in their usual nameCuban painter (1934–2011)
- Mimí Lazob. 1954VEVenezuelan actress
- Gabriel Pierreb. 1966CUnot in their usual namebaseball player
- Santos Cabrerab. 1976SVnot in their usual nameSalvadoran footballer
- Lassob. 1988VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan singer-songwriter
- Roger Rojasb. 1990HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Matías Lazob. 2003PEPeruvian footballer
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)
Attested in 52 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,709 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,850 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.6K | #3,782 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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
- Where does the name Lazo come from?
- nickname from Spanish lazo ‘hair ribbon’, ‘shoe lace’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Lazo?
- In the etymology graph, Lazar and Lace are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lazo?
- A machine transcription gives /laθo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Lazo mean?
- In Spanish, bow (type of knot)
- In which country does Lazo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Lazo in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lazo.
- How common is the name Lazo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,640 people named Lazo in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Lazo compared with other names?
- In Peru, Lazo is the 178th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lazo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lazoThe 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, “Lazo” — the 178th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.