Lugo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Lugo, a city in Galicia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/luɡo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lugo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common surname.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 343(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 530
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 991
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 343 (inferred from the name graph)
≈83,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Lugo, a city in Galicia. This was a Roman settlement under the name of Lucus Augusti ‘grove or wood of Augustus’, but that may have been no more than an adaptation of an earlier name derived from that of the Celtic god Lugos.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lugo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #57 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 343 | 607 | Lugo | 101 |
| US United States | — | 37,903 | 1 in 8.8K | 39K | Lugo | 383 |
| CN China | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Lugo | 7 |
| AR Argentina | #335 | 21,409 | 1 in 2.1K | 21K | Lugo | 80 |
| CO Colombia | #372 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 9 | Lugo | 115 |
| PY Paraguay | #107 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 530 | — | Lugo | 53 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #110 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 991 | — | Lugo | 57 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,917 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.9K | — | 24 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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)
Lugo 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 Spanish, was a Roman settlement under the name of Lucus Augusti ‘grove, wood of Augustus’, but that may have been no more than an adaptation of an earlier name derived from that of the Celt, god Lugos.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Spanish, Lugo (a province of Galicia, Spain; capital: Lugo)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, oriundo de cidades/localidades chamadas Lugo; do lat. lucus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, alternative form of luogo (“place”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, extremely weakened by disease (especially of birds and fowl, figuratively with humans)
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)
- Mariano Guadalupe Vallejob. 1807USnot in their usual nameCalifornian military commander, politician, and rancher (1807–1890)
- Antonio Machínb. 1903CUnot in their usual nameCuban-Spanish musician (1903–1977)
- José Sasíab. 1933UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer (1933-1996)
- Fernando Lugob. 1951PY47.° President of Paraguay
- Mario Gonzálezb. 1969MXnot in their usual nameMexican boxer
- Luz María Zetinab. 1973MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Israel Lugob. 1973USAmerican music video director
- Julio Lugob. 1975DObaseball player
- Enrique Gonzálezb. 1982VEnot in their usual namebaseball player
- Seth Lugob. 1989USPuerto Rican-American baseball 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)
Attested in 45 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 39K | #873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 38K | #913 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 29K | #1,092 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 21K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.9K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 9 | #107 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Lugo mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Lugo, a city in Galicia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lugo?
- A machine transcription gives /luɡo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lugo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 thousand people named Lugo in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lugo.
- How common is the name Lugo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,903 people named Lugo in 2010, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Lugo compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Lugo is the 57th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lugoThe 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, “Lugo” — the 57th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.